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John Edward Gristy 1933 - 1997

John Edward Gristy of Decatur, Macon County, IL was born on January 29, 1933, and died at age 64 years old on February 27, 1997. John Gristy was buried at Ft. Bliss National Cemetery Section O1 Site 514 P.o. Box 6342 - 5200 Fred Wilson Avenue, in El Paso, Tx.
John Edward Gristy
Decatur, Macon County, IL 62526
January 29, 1933
February 27, 1997
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John Edward Gristy's History: 1933 - 1997

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  • 01/29
    1933

    Birthday

    January 29, 1933
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: CPL Wars/Conflicts: Korea
  • 02/27
    1997

    Death

    February 27, 1997
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    Ft. Bliss National Cemetery Section O1 Site 514 P.o. Box 6342 - 5200 Fred Wilson Avenue, in El Paso, Tx 79906
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In 1933, in the year that John Edward Gristy was born, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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In 1941, John was merely 8 years old when in his State of the Union address on January 6th, President Roosevelt detailed the "four freedoms" that everyone in the world should have: Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear. In the same speech, he outlined the benefits of democracy which he said were economic opportunity, employment, social security, and the promise of "adequate health care".
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