Veteran's Day with Mr. Lundstrom
By: Alyssa Bienka and Amber Shade
Information from our interview:
- Lundstrom went into the Marines because he was messing up in college and his brother forced him to, when he was just nineteen years old
- He was in the Marines for four years
- The job he did was infantry which was the guys who basically just fought and didn't really do anything else
- Lundstrom was ranked a sergeant
- He never fought in a war because there were no wars in the eighties
- The thing he thought was the scariest was repelling from helicopters, if it had to do with flying he didn't like
- In bootcamp they lived in barracks which was thirty bunk beds in one room
- Also in bootcamp they only got about a minute to eat their food
- The hardest part about bootcamp for him was the mental stuff like them screaming and calling him names was a lot harder
- For the physical stuff it was easier because his brother was in the Marines.
- For Lundstrom being away from his family wasn't really that hard because his main family was his brother
- The first day they got to bootcamp they had to sweep, strip, and wash the floors, they also had to run ten miles because some guy said "Say what?"
- Lundstrom also said that the day he graduated bootcamp was one of the happiest days of his life other then the birth of his children
- After graduating bootcamp it was pretty much like college with guns
- The main prank he remembers is when someone took his gun and he got into a lot of trouble
- After the marines his to become a teacher wasn't hard, he knew that since first grade he wanted to be a teacher because his dad was a teacher ("Everyone wants to be like there dad right?")
- Lundstrom has never regretted enlisting sometimes he wishes he would have made a career out of it