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Life Post-Retirement
I did go back to school at every chance I got – took me 35 years to get my college degree because I went to University of North Carolina, Fayetteville State University, Cochise College in uh – so I went to every time I was assigned someplace I would pick up a couple units here and a couple units there. Personnel Management type, Business type units. But wasn’t until I got out of the military that I decided to go ahead and get my degree and then I became a teacher after that.
When they find out that I am a Vietnam vet, their question is “Did you ever kill anybody?” – and I won’t answer that. That’s not the kind of question that you should ask. And our youngsters nowadays do not understand that you know. They just think of it as something cool but if you’ve seen somebody dead, if you’ve seen the action, it is not cool.
Object Description
| Profile of | Robert Hardy |
| Title | U.S. Counterinsurgency in Vietnam |
| Profile bio | Robert Hardy was born in Illinois in February of 1946 where he grew up. It took him 35 years to get his college degree, however, he was very persistent, picking up units wherever he could. He attended the University of North Carolina, Fayetteville State University, and Cochise College. He left college only to be drafted into the military, he decided rather than be drafted and put into infantry as a "target" he would volunteer in the US Army and work in counterinsurgency. After retiring Robert was a restaurant owner and now lives in the Los Angeles area and teaches at the University of Southern California. |
| Profiler bio | Andy Benesh is a Junior, majoring in Communications with a minor in Business; Alec Phillips is a Junior majoring in Environmental Studies; Diana Ramos is a Senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering; Tae Hyup Ha is a Junior majoring in sociology |
| Subject |
American Profile US Army |
| Profiled by | Benesh, Andy; Phillips, Alec; Ramos, Diana; Ha, Tae Hyup |
| Profile date | 2016-04-07 |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Leesville; Saigon; Ho Chi Minh City; Chapel Hill; Fayetteville; Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (county) | Orange; Durham; Cumberland; Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | Louisiana; North Carolina; Arizona; California |
| Geographic subject (country) | Vietnam; USA |
| Coverage date | 1946 |
| Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/robert-hardy/ |
| Type |
images video |
| Format | 1 image; 3 video files (00:10:58); 3 transcripts |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam |
| Filename | hardyrobert |
Description
| Profile of | Robert Hardy |
| Title | Life Post-Retirement |
| Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
| Filename | hardyrobert-vid3_tr3.pdf |
| Full text | Life Post-Retirement I did go back to school at every chance I got – took me 35 years to get my college degree because I went to University of North Carolina, Fayetteville State University, Cochise College in uh – so I went to every time I was assigned someplace I would pick up a couple units here and a couple units there. Personnel Management type, Business type units. But wasn’t until I got out of the military that I decided to go ahead and get my degree and then I became a teacher after that. When they find out that I am a Vietnam vet, their question is “Did you ever kill anybody?” – and I won’t answer that. That’s not the kind of question that you should ask. And our youngsters nowadays do not understand that you know. They just think of it as something cool but if you’ve seen somebody dead, if you’ve seen the action, it is not cool. |
| Archival file | Volume4/hardyrobert-vid3_tr3.pdf |
