Staff+Sgt.+Clayton+Zimmerman

June 1972 to June 1991
Mr. Clayton Zimmerman received his training in Fort Dix, New Jersey; Fort Mononth, New Jersey; Fort Louis, Washington; and Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. He was drafted immediately after graduating from college. He didn't believe in the war in addition to being married at the time; but, he was drafted and had no choice. Instead of sending him to Vietnam, they took the top four graduates, and sent them to Seoul, Korea.

Staff Sgt. Zimmerman worked in a communications company handling the communications for all the troops along the DMZ zone between North and South Korea. He spent all of his service time in Korea.

media type="custom" key="21485432" align="right" He remembers at the time he really didn't want to be in the service. "I really didn't want to, really didn't want to be there, but in retrospect, I think there was a lot of good to it. And I have also come to the belief that I think maybe all younger people should serve their country in one way or the other, whether it's military or volunteer services, whether it's before you go to college, or after you go to college, and I wouldn't if I didn't believe that before then. And I do believe it now, yeah. It think it's beneficial not only for the country, but it think it's beneficial for all of us."

Partial transcript of interview with Mr. Clayton Zimmerman: