Summary #1- LeChunda Duncan

I watched the first video clip on William McKinney. He seemed kind of irritated or annoyed by the woman interviewer. He was born and raised in a city I think by the name of Union Down, Pennsylvania. He grew up as a Christian and was pulled into war at the age of 18. He stated that some of the holidays he celebrated was most of the popular holidays, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, ect. He said that he went to high school in 1939-1941 in an interacial high school. He was an average student who was interested in the sciences. For fun he played with his younger brother. In 1943, he was 18 turning 19 and went into the military. He was drafted into the military June 6, 1943. He didn't have any racial issues in high school. There were over 300 men who were drafted between 18 and 25 years of age. They were given a communication test and William scored the highest out of all men and was put in air base security. He talked about people were rude to them in the military and the black people were called monkeys and the whites said that they had tails. Blacks and whites were segregated. One white man said that the blacks were eyeball raping the white women and if they didn't want to be seen the men had to take the women off of the camp. William never allowed the white man's ignorance to get to him. He stated, " If they want to be ignorant, let them be ignorant." He travel to New York by train and stayed there for two weeks because he wasn't referred. He was in the hospital for days because he was having trouble with his vision. He talked about how they were always on the move. There was so many small towns, but he didn't remember them. Most of them were German towns. They had high millimeter guns and William was right under them. People were in their rooms when those guns were fired. William said it was very nerve-wrecking. William wanted to adopt two boys he encountered during this time. For the children, their parents were burnt alive. He survived most of the war because he really didn't have to be involved in too much of the war. He did speak about Normandy being a real big fight for him though. He was discharged back to the states December 14, 1945. He tallked about how his body was craving milk and steak and potatoes, when he got back because all that they got to drank was powdered milk during the war. He drank about four quarts of milk. He would eat a half pound of bacon, six eggs, and two quarts of milk. He got married two years after his war ended and had three children. All were boys and his youngest son Michael at the age of 38, as a tax accountant.

"If they want to be ignorant, let them be ignorant"
"My body craved for milk....all the milk we drank was powdered"