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Jeannette (1925- )
Daddy's dental office was located over the only bank we had in town for a lot of years. It had rounded windows at the top and there was his laboratory in that rounded area. They had rigged up an alarm upstairs. There were a lot of bank robberies back then in the Depression so he had a shotgun up there. The bank people would alert him and he would try to get the bank robber.
Fred (1915-1996)
We asked permission to surrender because of our men being sick and starving to death...that's when the death march started. That was sixty-five miles. We were three days doing this. If you talked one little bit or disobeyed commands...well, thousands of men died on that march! Fortunately, at the time, the sugar cane had matured and the natives were taking and throwing it to us. We'd never made it without it!.... After the march they put us in prison camps for the next three years....
At the end of the War they signed that treaty on the Missouri in Manila Bay in September. I think it was September. Anyway, the next day they sent up buses to pick us all up. I think there were eighty buses for three or four hundred of us. Took us down to Yokohama and there the Rainbow Division Band was playing, God Bless America. You
talk about tears! That was really something!
June (1954-1995)
You know since I've been sick, my sister Susan has become my hero because...before I got sick she had this condition called fibromyalgia. She still has it. And I had no idea the pain that's involved with this illness. It wasn't until I started having some pretty severe pain that I realized what she had been living through for the last three or four years. And the fact that she has continued to care for her children and her family as much as she has.... to me it's just amazing. She grits her teeth and just does it. She has said on occasion that she's envious that I am dying because she would rather do that than to stay like she is. You know, and she doesn't know if she'll ever have a remission or not. You know, if she gets a cold or the flu it's like ten times worse than the normal cold or the flu. It hangs on and it just absolutely wears her out. But yet she doesn't complain! She's a very, uh...well, people know that she's uncomfortable. She's not Stoic, but, she doesn't gripe about it, you know. And I think she has become my hero.
One day, after I got out of the hospital this last time, I happened to be listening to the soundtrack from Beaches and so I called her and I said, "Susan, you have the soundtrack from Beaches don't you? She said, "Yeah, why?" I said, "Well, put it on. Put it on track two." She said, "OK. Why?" I said, "Well, I'm dedicating this to you." And it was The Wind Beneath My Wings and so she started crying. But it was appropriate. It really was.
Katie (1936- )
When I was in about first grade I started working in the fields pickin' cotton, working the tobacco, pickin' vegetables...in the county. The people that owned the farms picked us up.
They just drove by , through the community, through the countryside, and picked up anyone that wanted to come to work. They paid us about a dollar and a half a day in the summer time. I saved all my money and I usually bought myself a pair of school shoes with it. If I wanted shoes to wear in the winter I had to work and buy 'em. I learned that when you didn't work you didn't have anything.
Sarah (1907- )
I have to explain about something I did. My husband just liked to gamble and I would be in bed asleep when he come in. He'd come home drunk after winning the money...and I heard him when he turned that key in the door and I still would look like I'm asleep. He would be walking around and hiding the money he had won. He'd go to the dresser drawer and pull it right out - and put the money in between there. He be pulling out the drawers and put it in between the clothes and things. Or he'd turn around and put it in my shoe bag behind the door, you know, where you put your shoes in. He'd put it down in there. And he would never mention it. When he'd get into bed and started snoring I'd get up and get all that money. And he'd wake up the next day and he didn't know where the money or nothing was. He never did know where in the world it was and didn't say nothing about it. See, I got all that money myself. 'Cause, see, he was drunk then.
Then I never would say anything about it...for two or three days. He never did say anything about it and I didn't either. He didn't know I seen him, too. He never, never knew and he never even looked for it. And that's how I got a bank account. I'm telling you! That's how I got rich!
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