Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 73
Where do you go after the army?… Read More
Where do you go after the army?… Read More
I came out as an E-5. Read More
So you’re in the army, what was your rank?… Read More
What was happening, some of these Korean quacks would give them antibiotics, penicillin, and it was Jergens lotion not penicillin, and their butts almost fell off, it was terrible. I didn’t have any, I never got it. Read More
Well, I was always very interested and I always like people, I like to talk to people. And I’d be in the village a lot because I was also running the PX and the laundry shop and the tailor shop and the camera shop. So I got to go to… Read More
Did you learn any life lessons there that stood you a good stead later on in life?… Read More
Early ’50s. I went to Korea in the early ’50s, I was there for 16 months. That was my first experience being out of town, and 30 days on the ship going and 30 days on the ship coming back. That was a great experience. Korea was totally different than… Read More
What years was this?… Read More
From Knoxville, I left home, I wasn’t getting along with my dad. I left home and went to my girlfriend’s house and they let me come in there, that was a mistake. Her mother let me come in and live with them. Well, I’m a teenage boy and hornier than… Read More
You moved somewhere else?… Read More
My uncle, Uncle Frank said, “Go home and tell your mother she needs you.” Now, from Knoxville, where you were living, where did you go after Knoxville?… Read More
I had a cousin in Pensacola, Florida, was my uncle Jake’s daughter, and she was my cousin. There was a song that came out called Nature Boy, you may have remembered that, I don’t know. ♪ Nature, boy ♪ ♪ A strange enchanted boy ♪ Well, she was always singing… Read More
Or they were doing other things?… Read More
Oh, yeah. Read More
It was a struggle, but the- Did they understand your love of nature?… Read More
Housewife most of her life. There were four children, I was the oldest, and there was one girl and three boys. Read More
And your mom, she was a housewife or she did other things?… Read More
My father was a salesman. He was in World War II, came home, and then he worked for American Tobacco Company and then Johnson Wax Company. He had worked as a salesperson most of his life. He killed himself at 43, committed suicide. I wasn’t very close to him, but… Read More
What’d your father do?… Read More
Yeah. Read More