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The view in 1938

July 7, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

"From the wide front porch I used to watch the soldiers training in the woods (where Clark College is today) with their mules." Read story

She was a civilian driver for the Army

July 6, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

"At the age of eighteen, I was one of six or eight women hired to drive Army trucks and staff cars." Read story

“Wonderful memories”

July 4, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

Her father was a master sergeant and served for 30 years Read story

She was born in the barracks

July 4, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

"My birth certificate has U.S. Army all over it" Read story

His paper route took him to the barracks

July 4, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

Soldiers would ride his bike and pay with a Hershey bar. Read story

Working at the PX soda fountain

July 4, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

"We civilians, even teenagers, felt we were doing our patriotic duty." Read story

He was a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worker

July 4, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

"I earned $1 a day, was allowed to keep $8 a month and the rest was sent home to my father." Read story

LTC Allan Jeska with 104th Division Marksmanship Trophies won by Division Rifle and Pistol Teams (Circa 1970's)

Officer spent much of career at Barracks

LTC Allan Jeska with 104th Division Marksmanship Trophies won by Division Rifle and Pistol Teams (Circa 1970's)

July 4, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

"Over the 23 years I was assigned to the Post, I explored, marched, trained, studied, maintained, commanded, and even shot .22 rifles in the basement range of the auditorium." Read story

Barracks holds many childhood memories

July 4, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

"I consider my brother and I for being the 'youngest soldiers' from the World War II era to actual train with soldiers from that era." Read story

Living in the years between the wars

July 4, 2010, 12:00am User Submitted

"My mother has fond and precious memories of growing up on the Post. I love to hear her heartfelt memories of life at the Vancouver Barracks with its great sense of community and the closeness that was pervasive amongst the soldiers and their families in those gentler years between World… Read story