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Merlin Arthur West 1929 - 2009

Merlin Arthur West of Fort Scott, Bourbon County, KS was born on December 2, 1929, and died at age 79 years old on February 25, 2009. Merlin West was buried at Ft. Scott National Cemetery Section 15 Site 149 900 East National Street, in Fort Scott.
Merlin Arthur West
Fort Scott, Bourbon County, KS 66701
December 2, 1929
February 25, 2009
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  • 12/2
    1929

    Birthday

    December 2, 1929
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    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: CPL Wars/Conflicts: Korea
  • 02/25
    2009

    Death

    February 25, 2009
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Ft. Scott National Cemetery Section 15 Site 149 900 East National Street, in Fort Scott, Ks 66701
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In 1929, in the year that Merlin Arthur West was born, on March 4th, Herbert Hoover became the 31st President of the United States. Early in his presidency, the October stock market crash - "Black Tuesday" - occurred, which lead to the Great Depression. None of his economic policies were able to make a dent in the Depression. This lead to one term and the election of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt winning the 1933 election in a landslide.
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In 1943, when he was merely 14 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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