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“The store was where everyone found each other”

Narrator Name | Interviewed May 9, 2026 | Fayetteville, North Carolina | 2 hr 5 min

Life on and around a military base: the church that organized the first gatherings, the grocery that became a message board, and the network of women who found one another through both.

Background

EXAMPLE PAGE — replace all of this. She arrived in North Carolina in 1968 and opened a small grocery near the base in 1974, which stayed open for thirty-one years.

Selected passages

08:20
Who came through the door in the first year.
52:00
On the church, and the women who ran it.
1:38:10
What happened to the neighborhood after the store closed.

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Cite this interview

Interview with [Narrator], [date], Korean War & Military Brides Project, https://kwasant7.github.io/kwb-project/

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