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Oral History Interview with
Robert Michael O'Connor (USAF Sgt., ret.)
91st Minuteman Maintenance Squadron (MIMS),
Minot AFB, 24 October 1968
Date: 23 February 2005
Interviewer: Thomas Tulien
TRT: 125 minutes
Format: M-DV
Copyright: AFS/Dialogue Productions LLC, Minneapolis, MN.
Transcription by Jim Klotz with additional editing by Thomas Tulien.
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Thomas Tulien
Sign Oral History Project
MO: Robert Michael O'Connor | ||
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TT: | —with Robert Michael O'Connor but you prefer Mike? | |
| MO: | Well that's what I go by. My mother called me Mike (laughs). | |
| TT: | Why'd she name you Robert then? | |
| MO: | Cause it was an Irish name. | |
| TT: | (laughs heartily) and Michael is not? | |
| MO: | (laughs) It's Robert Michael O'Connor, she did the same thing to my brother too. | |
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TT: | Let's start out just doing some background, where you grew up, school—up until the point where you went into the service. | |
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