William Stanley Sinclair, Jr. (1913 - 1997)

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Regimental Staff

Texas A&M Swim Team

Infantry Board

Dirks and Sinclairs, picnic at Kings Pond

Harpoon fishing

Buzz the Shark Hunter

Costello, Mutimer, Sinclair

Infantry Board, Ft. Benning, GA, 1944, WWII

Majors O'Neil and Crossman, and Wm. S. Sinclair

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Crows, their daughter and son-in-law

Junior at Texas A&M

Wm. Stanley Sinclair, Sr.

Fishing in Oregon

William "Buzz" Stanley Sinclair, Jr

William Stanley Sinclair Sr

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In 1913, in the year that William Stanley Sinclair, Jr. was born, Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. It had previously taken 12 hours to assemble a whole vehicle - now it took only two hours and 30 minutes! Inspired by the production lines at flour mills, breweries, canneries and industrial bakeries, along with the disassembly of animal carcasses in Chicago’s meat-packing plants, Ford created moving belts for parts and the assembly line was born.

In 1928, when he was only 15 years old, Mickie Mouse was born! He first appeared in Disney's Steamboat Willie, along with Minnie. Although they were in two previous shorts, this was the first to be distributed. Steamboat Willie took advantage of the new technology and was a "talkie" - music was coordinated with the animation. It became the most popular cartoon of its day.

In 1952, at the age of 39 years old, William was alive when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.

In 1966, when he was 53 years old, on July 1st, Medicare became available after President Johnson signed into law the Medicare Act in 1965. President Truman had received the first Medicare card since he had been the first to propose national healthcare law. insurance.

In 1997, in the year of William Stanley Sinclair, Jr.'s passing, on August 31st, Princess Diana of Great Britain was killed when her car crashed into a pillar in the tunnel under the Pont de l'Alma bridge in Paris. The car she was riding in was trying to evade the paparazzi but it was also discovered later that the driver of the car, who was also killed, had three times the legal limit of alcohol which likely contributed to the accident.