Edward J Erickson (1958 - 1958)

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unknown couple, Iowa

Brad & Lloyd Erickson

Britta Mathilda Goransdotter's son - please help!

Edwin M. Watson, Dorothy White and Court

Jack Erickson and San Mateo High School students

Elaine Gillett, Daniel Pinna, Norma Erickson

Christmas

Swedes in Chicago, Illinois about 1930

Norma Kroetch Erickson

Norma Kroetch Erickson, Mission Beach, CA

Kroetch and Barrett Family, 1956

8th Graduation Billings School 1933

Eric Erickson

Iva Erickson

Harley Wright Family, Ohio 1940

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In 1958, in the year that Edward J Erickson was born, on March 24th, Elvis Presley was inducted into the United States Army. Although he could have served in Special Services as an entertainer, he chose to become a regular soldier. Almost everyone thought it would be the end of his career - it wasn't.

In 1959, by the time he was only 1 year old, on January 3rd, Alaska became the 49th state of the United States and the first state not a part of the contiguous United States. The flag was changed to display 49 stars.

In 1960, at the age of merely 2 years old, Edward was alive when on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.

In 1965, by the time he was merely 7 years old, on March 8th, the first US combat troops arrived in Vietnam. The 3500 Marines joined 23,000 "advisors" already in South Vietnam. By the end of the year, 190,000 American soldiers were in the country.