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William Elton Griffin 1933 - 2000

William E Griffin of Seattle, King County, WA was born on May 29, 1933, and died at age 67 years old on September 19, 2000. William Griffin was buried at Tahoma National Cemetery Section 25 Site 1179 18600 Se 240th St, in Kent.
William E Griffin
Seattle, King County, WA 98178
May 29, 1933
September 19, 2000
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  • 05/29
    1933

    Birthday

    May 29, 1933
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: PFC
  • 09/19
    2000

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    September 19, 2000
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    Tahoma National Cemetery Section 25 Site 1179 18600 Se 240th St, in Kent, Wa 98042
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In 1933, in the year that William Elton Griffin 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 1945, by the time he was only 12 years old, on August 6th, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On August 9th, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. At least 129,000 people were killed in the two bombings and they still remain the only use of atomic bombs in war. An invasion on mainland Japan had been planned but President Truman ordered the bombs dropped instead.
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