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John Idema 1890 - 1974

John Idema of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan was born on April 12, 1890, and died at age 84 years old in December 1974.
John Idema
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan 49507
April 12, 1890
December 1974
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    1890

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    April 12, 1890
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  • 12/dd
    1974

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    December 1974
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In 1890, in the year that John Idema was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1916, he was 26 years old when in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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