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Item Number: OH0369 (Record 189800)

Title:

Interview with Pauline Laurent (by: Laura M. Calkins, PhD) - June 28, 2004

Interview Date:

28 June 2004

Collection:

Pauline Laurent Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Digital)

Length:

Length currently unknown

Description:

(Civilian) Pauline Laurent was born in Illinois in 1945 and graduated from Red Bud High School in 1963. She studied at Southern Illinois University and in 1967 married Sgt. Howard E. Querry IV. Howard had enlisted in the US Army in 1966, completed Basic Training at Ft. Leonard Wood MO and Advanced at Ft. Ord CA. He attended Officer Candidate School and the Non-Commissioned Officer academy at Ft Benning GA, and served at Ft Jackson SC before being stationed in Vietnam in March 1968. Howard served with Co A, 3rd Battalion, 39th Infantry of the 9th Infantry Division, and was killed in action on May 10, 1968 near Saigon. Pauline and Howard's daughter, Michelle, was born in July 1968. As a single mother and widow, Pauline coped with the loss of her husband by developing a grief counseling practice.

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Citation:

Interview with Pauline Laurent, 28 June 2004, Pauline Laurent Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0369>.