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Vic Oder was a rifle coach with the U.S. Marines for 12 years. He served during World War II and retired from the military in 1946. Now 82-years-old, he spends most of his time in the garden, growing thousands of dahlias every year. He talked to producer Liz Jones about his flowers and his service during the war.
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Vic Oder was a rifle coach with the U.S. Marines for 12 years. He served during World War II and retired from the military in 1946. Now 82-years-old, he spends most of his time in the garden, growing thousands of dahlias every year. He talked to producer Liz Jones about his flowers and his service during the war.
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Music Artist: Heavy Mellow
Album: Acoustic Abstracts
Label: Magnatune
Length: 3:13
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Marjorie Van Halteren
Posted on January 22, 2006 at 02:24 AM | Permalink
Review of Retiring with Dahlias
Here is an interview with a WWII veteran that sequ?s from his story during the war into his current passion, his colorful dahlias. A charming idea that intrigued me quite a lot - and in fact, the interview is full of delicate moments and potential juxtapositions. Here is where I feel bound to give the opinion that I wish it were more imaginatively produced. The interview is evenly edited with a kind of generic guitar picking slipped onto the beginning and end - his speech being slow and measured (normal considering his age) this music does little to underscore, and little is done in the production to use the ebb and flow, peaks and valleys of the imagery. There are lovely details here, especially in the end, his comments. (An interview nicely conducted.) I'd be delighted to listen again to this one, re-worked with a compositional mindset.