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Title
A Corpsman with the Marines
Todd Mirsky
Contributor
Menard, Andrew
Barsotti, Kellie
McKay, William
Date Created and/or Issued
2014-04-11
Publication Information
http://anotherwarmemorial.com/todd-mirsky/
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam
Rights Information
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Description
Andrew Menard, Kellie Barsotti, William McKay [Profiler bio]
Todd Mirsky was born in Brooklyn, New York. He spent just a few years living there before moving to Hollywood, California. He attended Hollywood High, and played basketball and baseball. He signed up for the Marines with some of his high school friends and was drafted to the war shortly there after. Todd served in the Marines for a year, and eventually was severely wounded in battle. He spent two years in the hospital recovering, and was honored with a Purple Heart. He coached basketball and baseball for many years after returning from the war for Miraleste High School, and was also a principle at Mira Catalina Elementary. He currently is an assistant varsity basketball coach for Peninsula High School. He lives in San Pedro with his wife, and has one daughter and a granddaughter. [Profile bio]
Type
image
Format
1 image
3 video files (00:08:34)
3 transcripts
Identifier
mirskytodd-profileimage
mirskytodd-vid1
mirskytodd-vid1_tr1
mirskytodd-vid2
mirskytodd-vid2_tr2
mirskytodd-vid3
mirskytodd-vid3_tr3
http://doi.org/10.25549/viet-c80-647
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/mirskytodd-profileimage.jpg
Language
English
Subject
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Anti Vietnam sentiment
Viet Cong
Teaching
Veterans
Time Period
1960-1979
Place
Brooklyn
Los Angeles
San Diego
New York
California
Hollywood
San Pedro
USA
Vietnam
Source
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
An Other War Memorial--Memories of the American War in Viet Nam

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