Orrock, Charlie
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C.D. "Charlie" Orrock oral history interview, July 24, 1995
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Identifier: OrrockCD_L1995-12_16
Scope and Contents
Interviewed by Christine Lutz: Orrock talks about his family background, his life on a dairy farm, and his schoolteacher mother, who also worked the farm. He served in the Army for six months and then spent a year having ‘adventures’ in Asia. He talks about working with Tibetan refugees, construction work in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, Chu Lai and the Viet Cong, and being a foreman blasting in rock quarry in Vietnam. Prior to this, Orrock explains, he was on Army Special Forces A-teams in...
Dates:
July 24, 1995