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My name is Jesse Esparza, and I am","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1.35,8.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"conducting an oral history interview for  the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=8.67,15.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you please tell us your name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=15.03,17.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My name is Marcos Barelas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=17.16,20.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you spell that for us, please?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=20.34,23.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"M-A-R-C-O-S, that's my first name,  Marcos, my last name, middle initial M","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=23.79,28.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[for Monsivais], last name's Barelas,  B for boy, B-A-R-E-L-A-S.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=28.71,36.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And can you tell us how old you are?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=36.15,38.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was 92 October the 7th, 2014. So I'm stepping, 93.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=38.82,47.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So that's also your date of birth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=47.85,49.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"October the 7th, 1922.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=49.41,52.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And where are you from? Where were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=52.95,56.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born in Houston at  the Heights. Yeah. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=56.16,61.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And what was it like growing  up in the Heights?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=61.14,63.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What can you remember about growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=63.25,64.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I-I cannot tell you  too much about, I cannot tell you expert, too much","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=64.92,73.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about it or nothing about it. I know  I'm born in the Heights, Houston.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=73.05,79.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But then my father passed away when I was  four months old and then my mother remarried","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=79.77,92.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two years afterwards to my stepfather,  Sirilo Barelas, so I recognize him as","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=92.07,99.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my father, you know what I mean?  My biological father passed away.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=99.57,102.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't get to know him because I was only four months old when he passed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=102.99,106.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But then [...]. We moved to Harris County  in the month that my daddy was still [...]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=106.98,120.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the farm, farming and all those things.  So I grew up in- in the Fort Bend County.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=120.01,125.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=125.85,126.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What is your biological father's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=126.48,130.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pedro [Monsivais]. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=130.87,133.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And can you tell me again  your stepfather's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=133.47,137.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sirilo, S-I-R-I-L-O,  Barelas, uh-huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=137.59,142.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And what is your mother's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=142.98,145.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Josefa Esquibel Barelas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=145.08,149.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And where was your mother,  where's your mother from and where was she born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=149.59,154.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"According to what  I know she's, she- she born [...] San Luis Potosi,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=154.86,164.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"somewhere out there yeah.  San Luis Potosi, Mexico.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=164.65,168.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And do you recall  when she entered into the United States or arrived into the Heights,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=168.88,174.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Houston 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in Fort Bend County did you grow up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=211.77,215.78"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=215.78,216.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes sir, 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A little town by the name  of Simonton, Texas. 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And I grew up, I grew there in, I, our job was to farm and corn,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=235.71,250.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cotton and vegetables and all of these things,  you know know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=250.53,256.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you have any brothers or sisters?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=256.77,258.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, I do. I have. Let's see.  I have five, had five sisters and two brothers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=258.87,275.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, I had step step brothers  and sisters, but it was, I recall","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=275.11,285.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more close, was when my mom- my mother gave birth to five- five, actually six.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=285.04,292.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I mean, right now it's only, see, four. Let's see, [...] Lucy, four of 'em are still alive.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=292.56,306.49"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah. One of 'em pass away already. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=306.49,311.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And your brothers and sisters,  they grew up with you in Simonton?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=311.47,314.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, they grew up with me, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=314.17,317.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we're gonna talk in a moment  about coming to Houston.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=317.86,321.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you remember your neighborhood in Simonton?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=321.52,325.78"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Little bit, yes, a little bit,  it's been so many years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=325.78,329.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Is there anything you can describe to us  about what Simonton looked like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=329.86,333.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"OK. Simonton is a little town of three stores and one post office,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=333.16,339.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and back in those days, they used to have  a little train run from- from Simo-,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=339.58,344.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from all the little country towns to Houston  in the morning and evening. And that's how we","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=344.75,352.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"used to come to- to- to Houston,  that little, that train. Yeah [...].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=352.51,361.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The people that live around around there,  they were all so friendly. And, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=361.5,368.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we know practically each other's, I mean by name because it was, you know, very, very close to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=368.47,377.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"each of us and all. And-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=377.05,379.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's talk a little bit more  about the people. Your neighbors?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=379.18,381.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ok.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=381.82,382.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What kind of people were they?  Were they Mexican American, were they African American?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=382.57,386.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. Well, yes, most of them.  Some of them had come from Mexico,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=386.83,392.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and, most of them, let's put it that way.  Yeah. Yeah. So it was that, he was, [...] I recall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=392.18,401.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But it was- it was a lot of like that or come from Mexico. Of course, they settled down here,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=401.44,410.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way back, way back. That's what they- they tell me  that they used to pay a nickel to come across the border.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=410.32,417.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, so-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=417.63,418.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So do you remember the size  of the population in Simonton?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=418.36,423.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, I think it was about,  see, I say five, five around, it was about three, three-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=423.34,441.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"300 people in that little town. Yeah, it was just  a small farm because all these little towns surrounds,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=441.91,451.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...] five miles away, seven miles away,  the town of Fulshear and then Brookshire.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=451.05,456.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then that's it. Clo-, Wallis, Wallis is close  around there, too. Yeah, they- they're pretty close,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=456.93,465.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to each other, so I mean we- we sitting  50, 20 miles away this, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=465.96,471.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Could you describe the house  that you grew up in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=471.6,474.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ok, we lived in a  two-bedroom house and,  of course, one- one living room, one","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=474.04,483.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kitchen and back in those days my- my mother had wood stove and could do all the cooking","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=483.51,493.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and all of this and wash clothes, by hand,  there was no such thing as washing machines","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=493.05,499.27"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and nothing like that. Also, she makes her own- her own food, you know, tortillas","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=499.27,509.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...], and she ma- she makes them. And- and they used to, on weekends the neighbors get","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=509.16,514.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"together and they spend together. We spend together with the neighbors, when I- when I-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=514.68,521.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I was in one house, be at another like that.  So we were very, very close to the neighbors","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=521.76,528.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they were close to us too.  So, and they used to have a,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=528.96,537.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we'd raise a lot, a lot of chickens, hogs, cows.  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In other words, he get- he gets- he gets","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=634.36,646.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two thirds of what- what, the money,  the community [...] when every-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=646.23,653.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everything was done, like I said, cotton and corn  and all these things that they bought, the people","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=653.31,660.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that owns the land, they get the rest of it.  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We raise our own cows and all of these things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=667.11,673.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so- so that the way it was, I mean and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=673.83,679.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you remember the name of the landowner?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=679.94,683.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. 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Oh, they they were uptown.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=752.81,759.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, because not too many people had,  that's, not something like that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=759.65,764.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"especially back in those days. The Depression  hit very hard. 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My dad, that's the reason.  my daddy moved. 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They- they'd be there waiting to see,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=815.03,819.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maybe they get hired. But then the boss come by  and say, last name and you and you and you and you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=819.71,828.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's it, the rest of us we had to go home  because it was no work. 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City people, like we  live in the country, we didn't suffer at all","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=858.14,863.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because we had, we raised everything.  Like I said, I mean, the only thing was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=863.96,870.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we didn't have much money. They have very  little money. 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We never did pay rent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=888.32,891.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Not- not in the country. It was, in other words,  he was [a free home] and it was not such a thing","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=891.86,899.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as electricity, lamps, you know, put kerosene  in 'em, and that's how- how you light your house.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=899.79,908.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, but the- the- the owner of the farm,  they used to, in other words, they never did","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=908.87,914.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"charge us rent. They never charged  my daddy rent. No, no none of them,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=914.74,918.9"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the people that live in the country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=918.9,920.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"About how many people  can you remember lived in the country back then,  on the land","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=920.63,924.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for the farm?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=924.08,925.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm sorry?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=925.31,925.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many people do you think lived on the land for, of the farmer? 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Or was it just your family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=933.68,937.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, no. All of 'em live by the land,  by what they, by the farm and all, you see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=937.22,944.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In other words, all the people, it's only  a small little towns around, like I say,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=944.26,951.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...], Brookshire, Simonton, Wallis.  And it was nothing but country, I mean,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=951.86,962.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they raise cows. They raise fields of cotton,  corn, alfalfa, Spinach and cabbage and all these","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=962.21,974.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"things, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=974.12,975.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And what did your mother do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=975.68,977.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother's, my mother used  to be a housewife.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=977.12,982.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, she gets up early in the morning.  She will have a fresh breakfast every day,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=982.28,988.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"every day for us and lunch and dinner and all.  Yeah. When I started coming up, I didn't,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=988.37,997.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I stay- I stay in the- in the country for,  well, until I went into the service.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=997.31,1005.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I, because, in other words, I- I help my  daddy, you know, to, in the form because","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1005.71,1019.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the rest of my sisters and [the brothers],  took my brothers, well one of them hadn't","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1019.63,1023.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been born then, that was way back in '27,  '28, '29 in the '30s, yeah, around that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1023.95,1032.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ti- 30's and all was, so they say, it was,  like I say, the Depression was real, real,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1032.54,1038.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"real, real bad around, yeah. So that's why  we- we, I took my due, I helped my daddy","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1038.15,1045.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at the farm and all, and- and- and my mother,  she used to cook for us and everything,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1045.1,1051.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know I mean, I say we had, we- we lived pretty,  the only thing we need was money. 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And because,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1075.35,1083.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like I said again, I used to help my daddy  and in those days, they didn't- they didn't","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1083.69,1087.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do a car, they went, in other words,  he didn't have to go to school there","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1087.89,1091.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if you don't want to. See the blacks go  to one school, the Mexicans schools go","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1091.39,1096.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to another school, the Anglos go  to different schools. Yeah, that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1096.59,1102.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was- that was the way that it was back  in those days. In other words-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1102.66,1108.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you know the name of the schools  the Mexican children went to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1108.65,1112.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was, well, the only-  the only school that I went, it was a elementary.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1112.61,1117.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, in Simonton.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1117.11,1118.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you remember the name  of that school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1118.82,1119.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, I don't.  I know, I don't remember,  but that was- that was, only Mexican","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1119.99,1125.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school was there. and the blacks,  like I said, they sent 'em","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1125.6,1129.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to different- a different school.  They had their own school to go,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1129.05,1134.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the whites. And when they,  in other words, to become to be","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1134.18,1139.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"middle school or high school,  they send him to Rosenberg.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1139.97,1144.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, by- by bus. But I didn't get-  I didn't get that, I mean, myself,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1144.45,1149.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't have no- no education at all.  I mean, because I say again, I- I had","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1149.33,1156.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to help my daddy in the farm. Yeah, but-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1156.14,1161.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's, can you remember  your experiences in the school, in- in Simonton,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1161.72,1164.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the elementary school? What was that like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1164.97,1166.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, well, it's like I say again,  I believe- I believe I, having trouble","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1166.34,1174.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"recalling this, [some of it] so many  years ago, but I think I went","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1174.51,1179.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the third grade only.  And, in other words,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1179.0,1184.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I always try, I was trying  to, to, to listen to older people","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1184.04,1190.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and all of these things,  and I learned how to read","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1190.41,1194.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Spanish and in English, and like I say,  I- I have always been hungry for","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1194.48,1207.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knowledge for, yeah so-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1207.38,1209.78"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was your favorite subject?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1209.78,1211.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, my favorite subject,  I tell you what it was something like read like part of","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1211.37,1221.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"books, history and things like that, yeah,  but I didn't had, like I said, too much,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1221.03,1228.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"much of schooling.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1228.05,1230.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you recall any of the teachers?  Do you- do you remember any of the teachers?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1230.39,1233.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of 'em, one of 'em, I can recall  one only, and I realize the only teacher","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1233.58,1238.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had. Her name is, was Margaret Mullins.  Margaret Mullins. 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And that's- that's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1249.68,1255.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[the one teacher that I had that]  I can recall, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1255.13,1258.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you remember were you able to speak  English and Spanish in this school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1258.23,1267.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Very, well actually, I could, so I was  coming up, like I say, I mean I,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1267.41,1278.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"even older people used to ask me to write 'em, see every- every two weeks we go","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1278.13,1285.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and get the- get the- the groceries, you know,  from a little town of Wallis, Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1285.72,1293.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And [like they] they used to,  I used to help him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1293.39,1298.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I used to help people make a list of what they want and- and I, in English,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1298.8,1306.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and then also before I started learning Spanish, how to read Spanish, and older","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1306.02,1316.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people used to- to call me to- to interpret  a letter that they used to get in","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1316.34,1325.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"English and also in the Spanish.  And I was kind of famous, famous.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1325.7,1333.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, but like I say, I [didn't] get to,  what I learned- what I learned, it was,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1333.26,1339.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in other words, by listening to people,  by reading books and something like that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1339.94,1347.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know? Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1347.75,1349.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What did- what did you do  for fun in Simonton?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1349.1,1351.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1351.71,1352.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For fun?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1352.13,1353.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, play baseball, softball.  Not- not- not football or, very little basketball.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1353.36,1367.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I used to love to play baseball and softball.  Yeah, I used to love that, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1367.64,1373.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where would you play that at?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1373.85,1376.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where do I, did I play?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1376.07,1377.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Was there a baseball field there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1377.57,1379.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, we- we made our own- our  own base- baseballs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1379.52,1383.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[This big] in the pasture. It was,  I mean you had all the land you want.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1383.03,1387.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, it was no- no- no limit to that,  and the owners of the- of the property,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1387.98,1394.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they- they- they left because we live  around there, they leave us, they let-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1394.28,1397.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"let us build our own, you know,  our own- our own ballfield.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1397.95,1404.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So it was no problem to that, yeah,  and we used to play, come to Sugarland","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1404.45,1412.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Rosenberg, Richmond, back Eagle Lake,  [Lockhart], Texas, Columbus, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1412.96,1420.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we used to play each other,  you know? Yeah, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1420.17,1424.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We were basically [...]. You know, we kept all these teams that we were around","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1424.88,1433.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"these little towns, you know? Yeah, yeah, so-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1433.04,1437.27"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And what did you want  to be when you grew up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1437.27,1439.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, my- my experience was that  I was always, let's put it this way,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1439.91,1454.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would always try to- to do something for myself","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1454.01,1461.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to live better and all of this because like, okay, when I would, when I was in the service,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1461.85,1471.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'd come back. I didn't have no,  I didn't have a trade at all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1471.92,1478.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, because I was a country boy.  So I come back and my mother saved all the,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1478.13,1486.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"see they- we used to get fifty dollars a month. 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But my mother saved all that money.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1493.67,1497.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She didn't- she didn't- she, I used to tell her,  call her up, I mean, write her letters","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1497.37,1502.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and tell her to go ahead and use the money.  She never did. 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Yeah, you can buy a lot of things with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1507.62,1514.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A shirt like that would cost 75 cents,  like this 75 cents, a dollar,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1514.55,1522.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and these shoes two or three dollars  and all your clothes and I-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1522.02,1527.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I- I- I used to love to wear, you know,  [...], I have very good clothes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1527.37,1535.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so when I come back, yeah, it's, still,  we live in the farm. 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I start to buy something like 150 acres.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1556.37,1563.27"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But then I, then one day I said  I went over there, fight the Japanese","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1563.27,1569.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the jungles and all these things.  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But then I said, no, it's not for me,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1578.39,1584.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so I- I come to Houston and start going  to- to University of Houston.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1584.99,1594.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, at U- U of H, I- I took welding,  I took mechanics, and I graduated","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1594.08,1609.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from mechanic school, but I didn't like it.  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And- and before, when I started, I used to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1632.38,1642.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"make five- thirty five cents a day  and but then, [we- 50 cents] a day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1642.37,1651.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I- I was hired part time at  the body shop, I was started part time","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1651.48,1658.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with a dollar, that was new because  I would have been in- in school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1658.66,1662.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for three months. 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And then they had a reduction  in force, and I went to to work for.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1708.25,1715.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"an independent shop here in Pasadena.  I used to live here in Magnolia,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1715.57,1721.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but we had already- we had already  been married, Hope and I, Esperanza and I.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1721.24,1727.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And as I went on, I went for two-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1727.13,1739.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's talk- let's talk about  your military service.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1739.13,1742.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ok.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1742.14,1743.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When did you first hear about  the war going on overseas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1743.16,1747.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, well, yes, well, before you know,  when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1747.69,1757.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and that's when I learned more about it,  but I didn't know, like I say, too very much","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1757.32,1766.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about it, but that's when- when I start,  in other words, to remember more clearly what","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1766.02,1772.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was going on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1772.86,1774.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you understand what was  happening when the Japanese attacked?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1774.09,1777.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, yes, yes. I mean, it was in Pearl Harbor.  The attack is first thing early in the Sunday morning.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1777.03,1784.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And in other words, they were, the men and a lot of people there was still in bed,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1784.47,1792.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know? And that's when they bombed Pearl Harbor, the seventh of December, 1941.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1792.21,1799.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that's when war was declared, and the Germans was already, you know, it's also, so we were","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1799.98,1808.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in war trying to deal with- with  Germany and Japan but-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1808.56,1818.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did you feel when you found out about  the bombing of Pearl Harbor, how did that make","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1818.79,1822.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you feel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1822.72,1823.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I was- I was 17 years old, and I could, they didn't draft me or nothing like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1823.83,1837.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean 'cause I was, like I say, but I wanted to- to go into service. I wanted to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1837.48,1844.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But then, what, when I, my 18th birthday on the eleven- on the, right after I was 18","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1844.98,1860.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the 7th of October, 1942 'cause I was  [saying once] we was already at war one year,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1860.3,1871.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so then the Induction Center sent me a letter,  it says, so I hit 18, I- I become 19","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1871.97,1886.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the seventh of October, the eleventh  of November, the following month,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1886.37,1892.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got a letter to come to report- to report to the Induction Center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1892.13,1897.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So it says, never forget because I got  this letter, it says, \"You've been selected.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1897.38,1905.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"by your friends and neighbors of the United States of America to report to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1905.09,1910.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Induction Center.\" I said, \"Wow.\"  So I come to the Induction Center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1910.04,1915.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I remember that I left the house.  My daddy and I still live in the country,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1915.56,1922.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Simonton, and I remember that my mother  was crying, my- my sisters and- and I,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1922.58,1938.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I come to the induction center,  I pass everything you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1938.57,1943.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They ask me if I wanted 14 day [leave]. I said no. I say if I pass everything. I'm ready to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1943.28,1951.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They say, \"Well you can leave in 14 days  if you want to.\" I say no, I said,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1951.11,1955.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I'm ready to go now.\" Say why? Why?  I say, \"Well, to begin with, I- I hear.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1955.16,1962.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my mother cry when I left, and I don't want  to hear her again till I come back or if","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=1962.36,1967.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't, if I come back.\" So that's the way  I've been. 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They were, and they knew,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2015.51,2024.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"those men knew the weapons. They knew,  they had never been in combat,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2024.37,2027.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but they knew the weapons. So then we pick another thousand in New Caledonia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2027.88,2034.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and those men, they already been in combat,  some of 'em Guadalcanal, some of 'em Fiji Islands,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2034.72,2040.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some of 'em Corregidor. And [it was a thousand]  of men that they had already been in the combat.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2040.03,2048.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So to us rookies, you know, that's what makes-  make us. You know, when you see somebody","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2048.4,2053.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/318","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like that, I mean, you learn a lot, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2053.56,2058.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The morning before you were sent overseas, when you received the letter from the Induction-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2058.1,2066.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2066.04,2066.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Office, how did that make you feel?  How did you feel when you got that letter?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2066.73,2070.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh when I- when I got, I'll be honest with you,  I- I was- I was- I was- I was happy about it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2070.54,2077.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because I was like I say, I mean, I said,  I mean, I didn't have no problem whatsoever","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2077.71,2087.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as far as how I felt, felt like, like if I was,  in other words, to be of service, I mean, to help,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2087.06,2095.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was ready to do it. So that's what, so I mean,  I didn't feel like, I hear some different stories,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2095.98,2104.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, all the time. Some of 'em were so sad.  Some of 'em played sick after they got into service,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2104.2,2111.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they got discharged because, well,  at least let it take, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2111.64,2115.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and then some of 'em, I mean, some- we had some  [men like that], a lot of the men crying.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2115.51,2123.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they want- they didn't want no part of it.  He says, \"I don't want to do, I don't want","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2123.97,2128.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go and die and all of these things.\"  So, but myself, I felt like I- I needed","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2128.05,2135.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/331","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go that I would need to- to do something  for- for my country, even though I was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2135.13,2140.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very young and all. But when I read all these  things about what the Germans were doing","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2140.83,2149.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the- to the- to the people that-  [send 'em in], put 'em, burn 'em up","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2149.2,2157.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in trenches and all of this.  [Civilian] deaths, I said, no,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2157.0,2160.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, we need to do something. I need to go.  I saw that's the way- that's the way when- when","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2160.8,2170.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"President Roosevelt [...] this for volunteers,  I said, I raised my hand, I said, we'll join, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2170.23,2177.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, how did your father feel  about you going overseas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2177.64,2180.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, my mother was the one that hurt,  what- what was real, real, real, real hurt,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2180.07,2187.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/339","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because since I was The oldest bro- the son,  the only son, she, you know, she thought about,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2187.38,2195.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/340","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was with her from, you know, when she came  to marry my biological father, he went to Mexico","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2195.69,2202.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to marry her, bring her over here, that's  why born here in Houston, because here we","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2202.75,2208.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"used to be, back in those days. I wanna talk  a little bit about Tim. My mother used to tell","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2208.45,2216.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/343","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me that in, back in those days, you have to do  as a- as a Hispanic Mexican, you have to board","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2216.1,2228.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the white man to be hired. And he was you,  he was working as a machinist in So- Southern Pacific,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2228.37,2237.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way back, they got [back in the], it was,  I guess sometime '20- '20- '21 because he married","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2237.52,2245.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my mother this part of 1921. So, so in other words,  I felt like, again, I felt like after reading all this,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2245.23,2266.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what's going on with the Germans and  Japanese, I said, \"Well, if I can be of any help,  I'm ready to go in.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2266.71,2273.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/348","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's the way it was. To enlist in the military,  [you were 18 years old] because I was,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2273.97,2282.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/349","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't enlist, they draft me. They draft me,  but I volun- volunteered to go overseas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2282.59,2290.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/350","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You see, in other words, like I said, President Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Churchill,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2290.77,2299.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/351","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they had some military Englishmen, British, go in that part of the world,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2299.71,2306.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/352","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Chinese and Indians, but they were, it was  like American Air Force, engineers,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2306.94,2313.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/353","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"single corps, quartermasters and all,  but it was not infantrymen that fight","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2313.87,2322.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/354","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in that part of the world. 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You know, so a lot of times, many days we go","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2420.02,2427.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/365","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hungry for three or four days. And it was a lot  of malaria, typhus, [...] and a lot of disease","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2427.36,2439.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/366","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out there. 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We got to, so I got there,  they sent me from San Antonio","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2560.99,2570.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/386","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Camp Roberts, California, which is close to San Jose, California, and [...] it's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2570.38,2576.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/387","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nothing but hills. And as we got there one morning, got off the train and and it was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2576.95,2584.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/388","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a little soldier 'bout- 'bout my size, he was an Italian. 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Get up at five o'clock in the morning.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2661.58,2668.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/402","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and mister hey run us all day long and walk 24 [mile] hikes and all of these things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2668.06,2674.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/403","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Fine branch] and all heavy weapons, mortars,  81 millimeter mortars, 60 meter mortars","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2674.57,2680.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/404","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Browning automatic weapons, heavy machine guns,  air-cool, water-cool and all day they- they teach","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2680.75,2690.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/405","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you all- all the- all the- all the weapons, grenades  and all of these, 45s [and these things], so-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2690.26,2701.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/406","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many, how many  Mexican Americans were in those training camps with you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2701.18,2705.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/407","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was very few of us, very few,  not too many. It was in those days it was  not too many Mexicans.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2705.08,2718.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/408","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The unit, when I went overseas. It was about 20,  'bout 20, 25 of us, Mexicanos.  And out of those 3,000 men,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2718.31,2736.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/409","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there was- it was no blacks at all.  They would, back in Second World War,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2736.02,2742.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/410","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they wouldn't let the blacks fight because  they feel that they, you know, they probably","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2742.48,2748.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/411","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"scared and all these things so they had 'em in,  [they not gonna have a lot, they had lot of]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2748.37,2754.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/412","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good job, quartermasters, motorpools, Air Force  and all these things, but as far as combat","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2754.1,2764.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/413","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they- they didn't put 'em to, in combat at all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2764.48,2766.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/414","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was the name of the- of your unit?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2766.88,2769.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/415","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was, we started  with 5307 Composite Unit Provisional,  and after we start the trail,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2769.25,2790.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/416","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Colonel [Hunter] was in charge of us, 3- 3-  3- 3,000 of us. 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how","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2864.55,2869.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/431","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to use these weapons all this time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2869.38,2871.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/432","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And was it the same, the same  training group 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I don't know whether you knew,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2877.57,2883.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/437","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yeah you knew, you- most of 'em knew who  I'm gonna talk about, just for a second.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2883.42,2889.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/438","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Macario Garcia, the Medal of Honor, the recipients.  Well, we went in the same day to the service,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2889.07,2895.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/439","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but they sent him to Georgia. They sent me to  Camp Roberts, California. 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That's where I volunteered and I don't-.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2908.59,2914.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/442","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't, I can't recall, it was three of us  in the same, they call it platoons, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2914.51,2924.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/443","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, 40 men in all, it was, 'nother-  'nother one of my friends from Austin, Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2924.79,2935.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/444","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Hernan] Hernandez and the one guy from, Curtis Adams from Jasper, Texas, here,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2935.29,2942.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/445","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"around the corner and we volunteer. So it, like I say  again, it was not that too many Mexicans there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2942.85,2954.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/446","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As a matter of fact, like I say, out of 3,000 men,  it was not over, I know to be a fact it was not","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2954.01,2959.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/447","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over 30 of us, yeah, so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2959.56,2963.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/448","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Wh- while you were away in training in California, Colorado, in Mississippi,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2963.55,2967.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/449","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did you communicate with your mom and dad?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2967.81,2970.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/450","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I used to write [either of 'em] letters and only mail, like you said, you know, I used to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2970.21,2974.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/451","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"communicate with 'em by mail. There was no  such thing as telephone. We didn't have no","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2974.56,2979.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/452","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"telephone, so but-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2979.85,2982.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/453","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What would you write about,  what would you tell them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2982.63,2984.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/454","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, well, I used to tell 'em ,you know,  that I was -I was doing okay, not to worry","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2984.07,2992.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/455","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about me, [that's what I send 'em], I'm doing okay  and all. And, so my mother, I know she used","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2992.5,2999.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/456","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to- to cry a lot for me and all,  but my daddy was, we're strong as men,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=2999.91,3005.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/457","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know? But she was, in other words,  she was not too happy. She was not happy","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3005.86,3016.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/458","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at all, she missed me a lot, you know?  But when I come back, I come back on","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3016.14,3026.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/459","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a 15 day leave, and I was, I went back  out of Mississippi, that's when they sent","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3026.55,3035.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/460","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me to Colorado Springs. And that's when  President Roosevelt asked for volunteers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3035.31,3042.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/461","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Churchill had some troops over there,  but he, yes, I- I understand it's true that-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3042.72,3051.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/462","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that he- he told President Roosevelt that he  needs some American fighting people in that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3051.51,3058.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/463","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"part of the world. And so that's, he,  President Roosevelt wanted to call","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3058.11,3070.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/464","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the people that he wanted, some people that  was ready, that were experienced and all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3070.47,3077.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/465","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I didn't have that experience.  I mean, some of us [did not have] experience,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3077.03,3081.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/466","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but what we, all this time we were, they were training us every day in and day out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3081.4,3088.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/467","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What- what would you eat  while you were training?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3088.2,3091.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/468","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, well we- we eat good, [we weren't straining]  instead we eat good [and all of that],","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3091.2,3098.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/469","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we- we go and just 25 mile hikes.  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We bathe and all,  we eat breakfast, they feed us lunch, dinner.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3111.82,3118.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/472","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But if we- we got what we got, when you get in- in combat, we live out of C-Rations","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3118.72,3125.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/473","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and K-Rations. And- and the first-  the first time in 19, [...], October,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3125.28,3138.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/474","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this is November the 7th, well I was there  for Christmas in Camp Ro- in- in Camp Roberts,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3138.56,3146.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/475","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"California, training, but Christmas and New Years,  money, I didn't have no money at all, and you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3146.23,3158.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/476","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they have like they call it P-X, post- post exchange  where you buy soft drinks and beer and T-shirts and candy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3158.43,3168.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/477","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and all these things. 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The ones was able to walk and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3279.61,3288.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/492","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and- and all, some other guy was  already wounded. 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But a lot of the- lot of the men,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3326.5,3335.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/499","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was fortunate, never did got wounded.  I got sick with malaria, [...]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3335.74,3342.27"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/500","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and all of these things, we call it jungle rot,  you know I mean, some of these, what you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3342.27,3348.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/501","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"call 'em, call 'em [...] you know they stick  in your body. 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Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3366.1,3368.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/505","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"5-3-0-7?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3368.0,3368.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/506","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't have no problem.  I didn't have no problem at all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3368.47,3372.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/507","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't have no problem whatsoever.  We- when we, like when the whites.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3372.55,3382.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/508","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we just treated, treat me and the very few Spanish  Mexicanos just like, you know, like brothers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3382.6,3393.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/509","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it's, when you- when you come back,  I mean, you get to- to love toward,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3393.76,3403.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/510","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of your next ,the de- the men that were  with you, because I mean we- we- we're.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3403.06,3410.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/511","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there for one purpose. It's to kill,  get killed, or survive, three things,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3410.87,3421.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/512","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and that's what I have always said.  Freedom is not free. Somebody had.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3421.54,3431.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/513","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to pay for it, and they're still paying for,  all these young men that's coming back from Iraq,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3431.22,3435.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/514","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Afghanistan and all these things, but 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They got run over. I mean, the Japanese,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3535.97,3541.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/528","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, they- they- they, see, they got a heck of a beating, though. 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Finally, we- we- we  lost some men, [okay well] they expected.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3734.54,3742.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/559","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"90 percent casualties. So we- we- we was already tired, sick, hungry and all and, but we took","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3742.46,3756.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/560","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the airfield. As a matter of fact, our general,  Frank Merrill, they pull him out, [...] had a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3756.53,3763.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/561","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"heart problem, heart, very heart problem.  But I mean, he just keep on moving,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3763.51,3771.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/562","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he had two or three attacks before he,  they got him out, he didn't want to go, get out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3771.46,3775.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/563","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How long was that campaign?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3775.36,3776.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/564","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was February to May, uh-huh.  That-s that's the first campaign,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3776.92,3783.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/565","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went through, it's in northern Burma.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3783.07,3786.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/566","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many campaigns did you go through in all?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3786.58,3788.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/567","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went to, it was, well, altogether.  We- we hit the- I hit the major campaigns.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3788.98,3797.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/568","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was that northern Burma and central Burma.  See, and lot of- lot- lot of us- a lot of men","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3797.71,3807.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/569","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't make it because they caught, some of  us got sick, very sick with- with a disease","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3807.76,3813.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/570","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and some of 'em got killed, some of us,  hospitals and all, but it was very- very few","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3813.73,3819.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/571","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of us, of the originals. 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Like, I'm- I'm black anyway, dark,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3851.25,3856.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/577","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I feel fine. Put some charcoal  in your face and your arm, make sure","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3856.39,3862.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/578","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your canteens won't rattle and have your weapons clean as best as you can","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3862.16,3867.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/579","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and all of these things before.  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See I was first, I was in first battalion.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3929.54,3934.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/588","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had two in first battalion, two in  second battalion, two in third battalion","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=3934.0,3939.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/589","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and six dogs per battalion.  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Yeah, and I 'cause  we had one times, we had a little colonel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4011.55,4020.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/600","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The colonel was, he had already  been first battalion. 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You discussed going in the front","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4092.4,4099.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/610","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they can give you, you know, gave you  elevations to fire, 45 degree angle,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4099.75,4107.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/611","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"90 degree angles and other. You have to be fine,  but you don't see what you've done until the-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4107.19,4114.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/612","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the next day or day after, after it's over,  you know. 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You learn how to disassemble, assemble 'em together,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4202.7,4208.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/626","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"blindfolded and you name each- each- each part by name, and you see, and that's-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4208.98,4217.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/627","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that's- that- that's part- that's part of it, part, very big part of the training.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4217.43,4223.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/628","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To know your weapons. 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I think that I had, I had  [yellow jaundice], I had malaria.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4289.94,4297.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/639","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and wet feet and all of that.  But I was very fortunate, very fortunate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4297.32,4305.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/640","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I never got wounded. 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So it's lucky to have a place","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4385.11,4393.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/651","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to, under, have a roof over, bamboo roof, so-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4393.37,4397.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/652","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you describe how you felt  when you lost men in battle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4397.95,4401.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/653","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How'd that make you feel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4401.73,4404.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/654","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's pretty touchy. Very touchy, very hard.  Yeah, it's something that you just,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4404.37,4416.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/655","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"how can I describe it? 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Like, we had this guy,  this friend of mine from Austin,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4589.61,4596.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/682","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arnold Hernandez, he got wounded three times  and he was- he was in the- in the mortars","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4596.45,4604.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/683","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...] in that unit because we had heavy,  light machine guns, 60 [mili] mortars,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4604.65,4612.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/684","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"81 mili mortars then at the end,  we had a 37 cannon in- in our group,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4612.71,4620.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/685","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the battalion, and- and when we  started going into the Burma Road,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4620.21,4630.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/686","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we had to put- put him on top  of a mule because he refused","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4630.02,4635.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/687","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go out, to- to- to get to go,  you know to pull him out and said,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4635.5,4641.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/688","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Oh, I'm going, I don't wanna go,  I'm going with my buddies.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4641.5,4644.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/689","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You cannot stop me.\" So we had to put  him on top of a vehicle to carry him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4644.72,4650.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/690","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But that's how some of our guys,  you know, they- they, you get","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4650.39,4657.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/691","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to like just so close to each others.  Yeah, that's up- up to now, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4657.74,4667.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/692","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the veterans that I know now,  and these young men that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4667.39,4671.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/693","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming back and all, I have a lot of respect for them because, I mean, I know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4671.24,4676.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/694","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's one way street. 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I got there, let's see, 19th September, September, October, November","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4682.58,4697.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/697","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and November, December, January.  We train, we train in India","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4697.52,4700.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/698","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before we go in, [when I] actual combat into Burma. And we started the fourth,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4700.91,4709.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/699","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the four of February.  In to the border of India","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4709.82,4716.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/700","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"into Burma, we knew exactly what  we were gonna fight for and all,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4716.57,4723.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/701","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we knew, yes, exactly because they- they told us what we was going to. 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They sent me to Calcutta and that's how","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4742.31,4751.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/704","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I come back to the states. 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Oh, I mean, we used to eat good and all,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4774.54,4782.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/712","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4782.51,4783.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/713","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What would you eat?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4783.86,4784.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/714","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, they- they- they have just like good American- American food in India.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4784.87,4791.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/715","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Some, those big city [...] you name it.  And, but, and they have the bands playing,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4791.6,4803.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/716","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and like I'm on duty [...] real young and all,  but they have music like those days,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4803.02,4812.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/717","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey  and all of this [...].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4812.42,4819.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/718","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, yeah, the bands that were,  they were real popular, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4819.29,4824.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/719","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and all of  those guys and they have the music.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4824.47,4834.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/720","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We used to- we used to, couple times we went to a couple of dances there, and they- they","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4834.07,4838.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/721","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just had very beautiful music. I mean just  like in America. Yeah, yeah. But after that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4838.98,4846.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/722","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when we, 15 day leave that's when they send us to Myitkyina again to train replacements","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4846.88,4858.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/723","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that were coming in for about a month  and a half before we went to the Burma Road","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4858.52,4864.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/724","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because there was a lot of Japanese  in the Burma Road, still out there,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4864.24,4869.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/725","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the purpose was to take so- so,  heavy transportation from India into China,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4869.38,4879.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/726","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come in China. And, but when they- they got us,  in this [original] men out that we got, like I say,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4879.33,4890.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/727","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some of us as the originals went all the way to central Burma. There was another campaign,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4890.65,4898.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/728","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"see, and but again, they-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4898.32,4905.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/729","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of the Mexican American men that served with you in Burma, how many of them made it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4905.98,4911.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/730","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out of Burma?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4911.8,4913.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/731","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4913.06,4914.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/732","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you remember that?  How many made it out of Burma?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4914.11,4917.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/733","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, right now, I mean, up to now, Mexicanos. I don't think, I met one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4917.08,4928.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/734","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two years ago, but he was- he was a replacement.  But original, I mean, just myself","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4928.19,4938.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/735","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and a couple other left of us, out of all.  [One of 'em we saw in] New Mexico","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4938.53,4943.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/736","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and another one out of California.  And, because altogether, right now,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4943.54,4949.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/737","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"altogether, the original marauders is about  18, 20 of us left, of all, of 3,000 men.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4949.42,4958.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/738","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There's lot of replacements, but the originals is about 8, 20- 20 of us left.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4958.53,4966.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/739","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Like we went to Milwaukee to our u-  to our reunion. We had 18 men who were","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4966.14,4977.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/740","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there, original. I got the pictures in there,  and- and it's- it's- it's that, it was was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4977.43,4985.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/741","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of 'em that used to live here, Joe [Asher].  He was part Mexicano, part German, Joe [Asher].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4985.51,4991.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/742","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where he- he lived here in Houston,  but he pass away. He started drinking","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4991.97,4997.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/743","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a lot and all of these things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4997.33,4998.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/744","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you spell his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=4998.92,5000.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/745","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joe Asher, A-S-H-E-R.  Asher with an A-H, Asher,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5000.33,5009.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/746","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A-, Asher, A-S-H-E-R, I believe it is. Yeah, Joe Asher. And we got together","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5009.11,5020.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/747","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I got back, [lord], but a couple  of times. But he would just,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5020.07,5025.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/748","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just completely he- he would start, he was  an alcoholic already, and he passed away","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5025.46,5035.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/749","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"long time ago and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5035.2,5038.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/750","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I want to ask you about the strategies.  What did you think about the U.S. strategies for-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5038.28,5046.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/751","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for combat? Did you agree with them,  not agree with them? Did you think","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5046.62,5050.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/752","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they were good strategies, bad strategies?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5050.64,5053.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/753","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, again- again, let's put it this way,  I wanna talk to a little bit about,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5053.31,5066.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/754","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we was going overseas.  It was some big, tall guys,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5066.21,5072.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/755","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"white guys. They cried like a baby and miss  their wives and all and some of us like,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5072.3,5082.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/756","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was single and all.But when you- when you-  when you there, again, you learn to live","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5082.56,5101.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/757","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that part of life that you know what purpose  you're going to, what purpose, why you there and all,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5101.58,5110.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/758","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and you don't know whether you're going  to get killed one minute to the other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5110.31,5115.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/759","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But so we, most- most- most- most of the-  the men that I was with over there, I mean,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5115.68,5124.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/760","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after we got in the front lines and all,  we- we- we were just, [another said],","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5124.44,5130.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/761","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Well, another day we see what's gonna happen.\"  And- and we used to have jokes and all, I say,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5130.77,5138.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/762","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Have no fear the Merrill's Marauders are here.  Many jokes like that, you know? But you learn","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5138.69,5146.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/763","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to- to- to- to appreciate life and all.  And of course, you miss your families,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5146.19,5154.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/764","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...], especially when- when you know that you gonna hit the enemy close to- to you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5154.01,5161.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/765","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Like, we had several times when the colonel says, says, \"Don't shoot him, stick him.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5161.73,5169.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/766","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stick him, I mean, Mr., when you fight,  close combat, close combat, you better","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5169.65,5176.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/767","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know what you're doing. And because when men,  because of, them men, the Japanese know","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5176.7,5183.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/768","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"their weapons, know their training,  they know. Most of 'em are- are well-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5183.18,5190.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/769","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are well-trained, like the- like the SS troopers  in Germany. And so you know that they're,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5190.68,5202.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/770","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they know their, they know their weapons,  they know how to fight. And so you try to do","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5202.83,5208.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/771","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the best you can, live one minute to the other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5208.8,5212.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/772","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many times, can you remember how many  times you fought close quarters?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5212.37,5217.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/773","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Close?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5217.26,5219.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/774","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you explain what that's like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5219.99,5223.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/775","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, like I say again, or it's like, of course,  you- you miss your- your family, first of all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5223.8,5243.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/776","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean you say, \"Well, I don't know if I'm gonna go back or not, or do I make it or not.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5243.3,5248.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/777","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But you learn to- to live one, like [you say- said] one minute to the other,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5248.88,5258.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/778","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one day at a time. Because you don't know,  a lot of people say that, I have met a lot of","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5258.39,5267.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/779","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"men that were in the service, but they never saw combat.And- and they have, some of 'em","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5267.51,5280.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/780","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have different- different ways, different  ways of thinking of the service.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5280.62,5288.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/781","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I learned how to appreciate life,  and I learned how to get along with people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5288.63,5298.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/782","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You admire who he was. You respect me,  I respect you, the next man, next to you,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5298.86,5306.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/783","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the men you associated with. But of course,  you don't know him more, I mean,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5306.08,5311.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/784","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but you- you learn how to appreciate life and all.  And then up to now, I've been in three or four fam-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5311.58,5323.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/785","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"veterans reunion, we still, [...] we just, and,  \"I'm glad that you here, [...] still here and all.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5323.35,5334.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/786","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This year we're gonna have it in Fort Worth area  for the first time in 20, this is back in the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5334.26,5341.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/787","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seventies since I've been in the fifties.  The first time we have one, gonna have one","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5341.25,5347.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/788","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Texas. 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You go with your","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5490.15,5496.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/809","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clothes wet for days and sometimes you go hungry like, I remember, 1944 Thanksgiving.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5496.45,5509.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/810","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We was over there already for this,  let's- let's- let's be sure that I went.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5509.68,5518.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/811","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had, for nine men, we had three cans  of pumpkin, two cans of stew- stew meat,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5518.36,5529.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/812","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two cans of dehydrated potatoes, and- and a  couple sticks of, three sticks of chewing gum,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5529.03,5542.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/813","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two bars of chocolate 'bout that long three bars  for each little pack, and that was- that was our","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5542.45,5550.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/814","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thanksgiving dinner. But we have to, we had to,  we was 12 miles away from the enemy,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5550.04,5557.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/815","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so we had to attack the next morning.  See? So things like that, it's, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5557.54,5565.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/816","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you- you remember those things for life.  You see, you never forget those things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5565.04,5570.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/817","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But that's the way. That's the way they  train you, to live, they, in other words,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5570.74,5581.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/818","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you go there for one purpose.  And that is like I said, you make it,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5581.18,5586.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/819","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"don't make it or survive. That's it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5586.36,5589.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/820","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you have any citations  or recommendations?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5589.88,5592.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/821","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you receive any citations  or recommendations?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5592.73,5595.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/822","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh yes, I got- I got- I got  a presidential citation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5595.01,5602.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/823","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"President Roosevelt ordered that for us,  for all the unit, Merrill's Marauders.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5602.48,5611.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/824","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then we become rangers by  the supreme commander and got","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5611.72,5625.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/825","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two bronze stars and combat infantry badge. Not- not everybody have a citation like that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5625.73,5634.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/826","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Or combat infantry badge, the only people  that it is ones that been in actual combat","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5634.91,5641.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/827","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I had the liberation of Burma. 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Everything got lost","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5662.93,5671.9"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/830","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the- in the, coming back in the ship  back home. So Gene Green got all me medals.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5671.9,5682.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/831","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Five ...] five, six years ago. 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The, [...] presidential citation,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5688.27,5698.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/833","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yeah, and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5698.16,5699.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/834","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What is your discharge status?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5699.46,5701.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/835","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm sorry?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5701.84,5702.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/836","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What is your discharge status?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5702.38,5705.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/837","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Discharge?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5705.62,5706.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/838","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Discharge status? Am I asking that right?  What is this, your discharge status? Were you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5706.13,5711.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/839","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, I've got, well my discharge.  My discharge is honorable discharge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5711.65,5717.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/840","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, I was honorable discharge. Yes, oh yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5717.44,5722.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/841","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What year were you discharged?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5722.33,5726.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/842","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The 2nd of November, 1945.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5726.62,5735.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/843","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you have any service or combat stripes?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5735.14,5738.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/844","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had six months, two, two years overseas  and I was a private first class. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5738.59,5752.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/845","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What about you enlisted record brief?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5752.54,5756.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/846","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I- I only have- I only have this  and have the, from the war department","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5756.89,5765.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/847","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and some other, some other interviews  I have been through. Lot of certificates","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5765.81,5775.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/848","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from different parts, from people  here in the Houston area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5775.37,5780.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/849","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it's- it's very, they- they inter-  interview me quite- quite often, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5780.59,5791.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/850","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and but, tell my war experience,  war experiences. And, but-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5791.72,5802.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/851","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker3:\u003c/strong\u003e You could show them-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5802.22,5802.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/852","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5802.59,5803.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/853","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker3:\u003c/strong\u003e The way you send your mama.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5803.44,5804.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/854","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, see, that's a material come from- In-  from India. I sent that to my mom,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5804.35,5813.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/855","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nineteen forty what, 1944, yeah, 1944.  And it had the- the emblem that I have","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5813.43,5823.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/856","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over there and all of that, but they saw  a lot of it's gone there. Yeah, uh-huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5823.64,5830.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/857","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In your experience, how were Mexican American soldiers treated in- in the military?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5830.96,5837.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/858","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"From what you can remember, how were  they treated?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5837.83,5845.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/859","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, at first- at first-as first,  like- like when we were- we were  training here in the states, they will,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5845.3,5855.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/860","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they had a bad- bad attitude. They would say,  \"Hey Pancho,\" and all of these things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5855.5,5860.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/861","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I'd say, tell them that, I'm not Pancho, see your name tag in there,\" says,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5860.42,5865.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/862","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I'll tell you that- that's my name.\"  And- and- and we had fights over it too,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5865.02,5872.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/863","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, but, also, but, like people  from northern states, had some out  of New York, Connecticut, and all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5872.21,5888.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/864","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the way- way back in those days, it was all Hispanics lot- lot- lot-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5888.15,5898.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/865","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot- lot of parts of the states, especially northern states like also like in","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=5898.22,5905.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/866","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"South Dakota, Wyoming, and all of those things,  and it was sad. 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He sleep two or three hours and I sleep two or three hours, we get behind","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6022.99,6029.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/882","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the- the- the machine gun. You see that he,  you got to have somebody awake at that machine,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6029.97,6037.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/883","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and yet, and then you got your  ammunition carriers behind you or  when you get, when they get,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6037.72,6045.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/884","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[orders got me firing]. You better get out there  and fire and that weapon. 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Yeah, [...] yeah, so that,  usually you get along real good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6067.88,6076.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/889","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, I can't complain. 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I got married in 1948, in '47,  it's, in January '47. We've been married,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6284.56,6296.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/918","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that's counting from here, that time up  to now, something like 67, 66, [...],67,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6296.3,6303.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/919","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"66 years been married. But we got married  and I- I used to, like I say, go to school,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6303.33,6317.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/920","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and when I start learning, I was hardly  making the dollar an hour or so,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6317.94,6324.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/921","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but sometimes I had two or three jobs  and working night also, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6324.61,6330.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/922","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if there was a dime to be made,  Marcos gonna make it for my family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6330.88,6335.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/923","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What- what was-  what was Houston like when you came home and you were working and going","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6335.74,6341.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/924","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to school [in the city]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6341.05,6342.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/925","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, the- the city it was,  I'll be honest with you, it was- it was lof of- lot of,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6342.7,6350.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/926","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"most of the people was real  poor here in Houston.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6350.2,6356.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/927","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They the boys, we get together over here at  Wallisville Road, guys that used to live","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6356.83,6370.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/928","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at that part of the- part of town there  on Liberty Road, and we talked, we meet","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6370.44,6376.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/929","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over there every other this first-  oh you was there- the first Tuesday","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6376.72,6382.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/930","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the month and we were, in other words,  we were all poor. 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I say, \"Yeah, but  I don't have but 25 dollars.\" [So he says","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6486.51,6492.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/943","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that], [I got some money to go. If you-  if you don't go, I don't go- I don't go myself,\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6492.35,6496.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/944","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he said. So I went. But we stopped  in Rosenberg to nine- nine o'clock at night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6496.41,6502.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/945","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was 11 of us. It was another, 'nother  Mexicano, [...]. 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And, \"Well, what's  the hold up here?\" and the waitress says,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6525.26,6531.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/949","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I can serve you all, but I cannot  serve them.\" Well, quiet that's when I said,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6531.38,6539.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/950","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Well, let's get out of here.\" I used to be good  at pick up chairs. I pick up a chair,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6539.25,6545.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/951","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they- they pulled me back. And so we all went out and it's a, the restaurant,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6545.67,6554.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/952","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it was about three blocks from the police station right there in the old- old high-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6554.45,6560.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/953","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Rosenberg. This was, they had a big window, glass window. And [I- I wanted to throw],","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6560.6,6570.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/954","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was trying to find something  to throw at the window and break it,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6570.35,6574.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/955","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we started getting in the cars. So [he helped us] throw a rock in there,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6574.37,6580.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/956","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"'bout that big. And I threw it there  and broke the glass. He says,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6580.01,6585.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/957","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Marcos, you should never done that.  We're gonna get stopped and all of this.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6585.77,6590.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/958","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So but, up to now, I never did hear anything about it.  But [Macario Garcia], he had a fight right there","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6590.15,6598.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/959","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the [bottom by Richmond] behi- bottom of the River, Brazos River and that's when he","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6598.52,6604.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/960","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hit this waitress, but who saved him? President Truman said, \"No, you cannot touch","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6604.52,6610.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/961","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this man. He's a Medal of Honor recipient, and you cannot not touch him.\" But what","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6610.07,6619.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/962","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happened with him, he started drinking heavy. He got in an accident. That's how he went.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6619.37,6625.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/963","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He got killed in an accident right there  in Sugarland. That- that's right there in-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6625.73,6630.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/964","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right there in the little town. Now it's a big city there and everything, yeah, but that's how he went.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6630.95,6637.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/965","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6637.97,6638.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/966","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Who's [Nacho Ramirez]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6638.15,6639.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/967","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Nacho Ramirez]. I- I- I don't know  whether he is still alive or not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6639.89,6647.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/968","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I haven't heard from him anymore.  [Nacho Ramirez] he- he was,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6647.36,6653.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/969","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as a matter of fact- matter of fact, he had,  also he had a shop. See I, him and I,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6653.18,6660.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/970","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he was working for the Kaira- Kaiser-Frazer,  it was Kaiser-Frazer then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6660.04,6666.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/971","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was a dealer here in Houston, in the '50s.  And he was working for them and I was working","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6666.02,6670.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/972","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for a Ford dealer and we were, both of us was inv-,  he was invited to go to this bullfight and I-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6670.61,6677.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/973","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Was he also- was he also a veteran?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6677.09,6678.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/974","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. Uh-huh. He was a veteran. Yes. I don't know, I know he got- he got married.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6678.83,6686.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/975","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He had, I don't know how many kids because we- we lost track of each [of us] years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6686.63,6695.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/976","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know if he's still alive or not,  but he- he's- if he's still alive, he's around","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6695.3,6699.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/977","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my age. If he's still alive. And I-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6699.17,6704.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/978","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When you started attending the-  the University of Houston, how did you-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6704.0,6708.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/979","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"how did you have money to go to that school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6708.8,6711.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/980","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did I had money to go? Well, they send you the government or the G.I. Bill,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6711.2,6717.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/981","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they call it the G.I. Bill of Rights. They pay for your school. You see, since- since you're","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6717.45,6723.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/982","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a veteran, [let's see, they-] they pay for a  schooling and they give you so much a month.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6723.26,6732.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/983","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Not very- not very much, but I mean,  they gave us so much money a month","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6732.17,6737.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/984","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for you to [encourage you to-] to use  your personal [thing]. And then, like I say,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6737.0,6743.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/985","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was working part time, then- then I went  to work for [...] Air Force Base","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6743.48,6750.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/986","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they had a big reduction in force.  I worked a couple of years in Pasadena","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6750.48,6756.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/987","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"running a shop. Then I went to work  for another company. I work for them","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6756.95,6763.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/988","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"13 years, and then I went to [Sturdy Stevenson],  you- you've heard about [Sturdy Stevenson].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6763.97,6773.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/989","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had a, they started a second [it's too dirty].  Back there, they used to build tanks and all","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6773.24,6780.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/990","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but they start horseshoeing horses,  that's what they start with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6780.8,6786.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/991","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But when war broke loose 19, in the for-,  1941, they start building tanks and all these,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6786.47,6793.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/992","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"jeeps and all of these things.  And I worked for them 12 years also.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6793.04,6798.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/993","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then I went in business  for myself, 1940-, for, '79.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6798.08,6802.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/994","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What kind of business?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6802.55,6803.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/995","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Body shop business. I had- I had  my shop over here at Northside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6803.72,6810.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/996","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was it called?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6810.74,6811.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/997","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Master Craftsman Body. Show you  a picture of it. I went on my own,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6811.94,6821.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/998","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then my son and I, we was together,  and he help, used to help me","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6821.86,6828.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/999","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[when I was, he used to help me].  And that's my Marauders card.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6828.24,6836.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1000","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we were doing-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6836.76,6848.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1001","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What's- what- what, did you notice any changes when you returned home, when you came","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6848.12,6853.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1002","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back to- to- to the states, to Texas  and to- to Simonton, to Houston","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6853.42,6859.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1003","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were things different for you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6859.05,6860.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1004","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh yeah, very different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6860.77,6863.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1005","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was different?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6863.02,6866.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1006","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, first of all, I see some men,  first of all, they were- they were,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6866.65,6873.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1007","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I couldn't stand seeing people- people  [fighting each other] and I- I couldn't see","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6873.76,6882.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1008","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that at all. I- I used to say,  \"Well, why did you went to war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6882.01,6888.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1009","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You wanna fight each other, fight each other and all these things.\" And that was, I didn't-.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6888.37,6894.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1010","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't agree with that at all.  But [if I went on] I went on, [...].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6894.88,6901.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1011","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In other words, I- I learned more about it  because to me, all that time, I was not too","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6901.75,6909.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1012","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very long in the service, [...] 11- 11  months and 22 days. I mean, two years","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6909.37,6918.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1013","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and 11 months and 22 days, for just a few days,  I [didn't have but] three years in,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6918.07,6923.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1014","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I had a hard time, again, adjusting  because I used to live another kind","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6923.29,6932.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1015","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of life, you know, I hate to see fights  and all of the things, and, one,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6932.29,6937.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1016","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but then I start drinking a lot  and everything like that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6937.33,6942.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1017","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I start getting into fights and some,  all of these things and- and many- many times","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6942.37,6949.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1018","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't get killed because [God],  he was good to me, I guess.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6949.33,6955.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1019","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, but 1979 I went in business  for myself and I had a good business,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6955.75,6967.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1020","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had my own shop, my son and I,  and, 'course we call it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6967.15,6972.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1021","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Master Craftsman Body Shop. We used to do, we, a lot for the school district,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6972.12,6979.27"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1022","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Houston ... from Humble],  lot of heavy equipment,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6979.27,6984.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1023","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as well as fine automobiles and all and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6984.4,6988.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1024","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where exactly in the North Side  was your auto shop?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6988.57,6991.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1025","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[North Side]. On 610  between- between- between Fulton,  between Ir- Irvington-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=6991.0,7009.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1026","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Irvington and the toll,  the- the- Hardy Toll Road,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7009.57,7014.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1027","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was two blocks north of 610 and on old Hardy- old Hardy Road, but I was the only","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7014.7,7024.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1028","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hardy Road, but then the- the city and the state bought me out and then the- the- the-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7024.06,7034.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1029","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the toll road went right  in the middle of my shop.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7034.4,7037.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1030","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So- so I had to- I had to sell to them.  You see, because, then I went- I went way","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7037.65,7046.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1031","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out there [...], [spent two years and a half],  then I come back downtown and [and that closed down],","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7046.32,7054.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1032","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and my last shop was on Berry Road.  Yeah, and we went buying, we'll buy,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7054.14,7063.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1033","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we was buying that property,  but then we- we decided not do this,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7063.12,7067.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1034","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I start getting real bad, I mean,  my [...] and all, and I used to run","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7067.33,7080.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1035","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"estimates and all of this and- and my son,  it was lot of- lot of- lot of work for him","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7080.09,7080.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1036","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"also and so we just decided  to close up, shut it down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7080.88,7085.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1037","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And where did you live  during all this time? Where- where in the city.  What neighborhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7085.09,7088.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1038","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ok? When he, her and I,  we got married, we live here at  Magnolia right there on","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7088.86,7097.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1039","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Avenue- Avenue C, right by the American Legion,  close to the American Legion here in Magnolia so 76th-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7097.74,7104.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1040","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Is that house still there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7104.76,7105.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1041","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"House. Yeah, yeah, the house is still there,  but they- they rebuild it- they rebuild it,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7105.42,7110.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1042","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they knock it down and build another  house there. One of her niece lives there,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7110.01,7115.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1043","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yeah, but then I bought a house somewhere off  of Johnson Drive, and that's how they used to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7115.46,7124.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1044","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pay 50 dollars a month, for the house,  our- our payment cost me $8,000.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7124.32,7131.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1045","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it was three bedroom, kitchen,  and living room and- and we raised","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7131.25,7139.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1046","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all the kids there. Yeah we had-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7139.59,7141.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1047","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many kids did you have?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7141.72,7143.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1048","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had five. Right, Hope?  Three boys and two girls and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7143.05,7149.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1049","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What are their names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7149.62,7151.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1050","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One, the oldest one was David,  David Charles Barelas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7151.69,7155.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1051","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The other one was Richard and they  call him Rick for short, you know","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7155.74,7160.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1052","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[what I mean]. And the other one,  the only one that's living now is Gilbert, uh-huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7160.81,7166.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1053","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He's, as a matter of fact, he went on  a cruise, he's out there somewhere on","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7166.3,7171.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1054","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a cruise, he's due back this coming,  over the weekend. And one of us,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7171.82,7177.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1055","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of our daughters, live in Humble,  the other one live in Dallas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7177.94,7182.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1056","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What are their names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7182.98,7186.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1057","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Belinda and Elissa, uh-huh.  They- they've been, they, all of 'em got very,  Gilbert been","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7186.31,7195.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1058","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with CenterPoint for 30 years now, yeah.  And Elissa been with the telephone company","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7195.64,7205.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1059","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way back there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7205.55,7207.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1060","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What is your wife's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7207.79,7209.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1061","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"'Speranza, 'Speranza and  [we go with what we call her]  but like we use more in the English","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7209.08,7215.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1062","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hope than Esperanza. [But-]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7215.89,7217.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1063","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What year did you get married?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7217.98,7220.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1064","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What year? 1940- 1947, yeah, Hope?  Yeah, January 1947.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7220.51,7230.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1065","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And where's your wife from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7230.47,7232.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1066","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She's from here, from Houston","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7232.33,7233.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1067","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born here in [Broadway].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7233.89,7235.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1068","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, she- she go to school at, what's  the name of the schools? I, Harris-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7235.84,7240.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1069","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harris.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7240.39,7240.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1070","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"John Harris here on Broadway.  And yeah, she- she- she's a Houstonian.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7240.85,7246.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1071","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She lived in Magnolia all her life, you know, I mean, since she was young, yeah, so-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7246.7,7253.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1072","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Are there any other neighborhoods  that you lived in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7253.81,7257.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1073","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Uh-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7257.17,7258.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1074","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You lived in [Magnolia]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7258.59,7259.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1075","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I live- I live at North Side, a nice house  that we bought, it was out there on Roswell","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7259.3,7269.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1076","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"between- between the across [...]  and- and Fulton. Right, right by,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7269.41,7277.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1077","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"close to- to Fulton Street on Roswell Street. And we had the business right there,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7277.43,7287.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1078","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right there for a- for a number of years. But then, like I say, I had to sell to the-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7287.41,7293.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1079","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the city, part to the city,  part to- to the state.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7293.29,7296.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1080","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did you and Hope meet?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7296.95,7303.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1081","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...] well, one time we were going to,  see I was going to Easter Sunday, was in","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7303.55,7312.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1082","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"40- 40- 40- 46, I guess, yeah.  It's Easter Sunday- it's Easter Sunday,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7312.89,7320.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1083","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they were in one of these flatbed trucks,  t hey have a stake on sign boards and it was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7320.65,7328.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1084","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"four of us behind them in a car and the driver  and myself was sitting in the front","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7328.93,7335.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1085","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and two other guys in the back. And it, a lot  of girls in that truck. They were ahead of us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7335.03,7341.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1086","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then we start [saying], I like that one.  I like that one and all that. I said- I said,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7341.38,7348.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1087","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I tell you what, the one I like, I like  the one with the pig- pigtails. Had pigtails.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7348.29,7355.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1088","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's the one I like.\" So we got over there.  One of her cousins introduced me to her","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7355.84,7363.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1089","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and [...] there with the girls  and the boys. And that's how we met.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7363.12,7370.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1090","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it was on Easter Sunday. Yeah, it was 1940- '46, I believe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7370.69,7378.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1091","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah- yeah- yeah- yeah, let's see.  Yeah- yeah- yeah, it was, uh-huh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7378.04,7386.27"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1092","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was 1946, that's how we met,  at San Jacinto Battleground.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7386.27,7390.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1093","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Y'all were playing ball.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7390.76,7392.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1094","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, playing ball and all and-  and the boys with girls and all. And that's how we met.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7392.06,7399.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1095","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I met her through one of her cousins and it got to the point where we [just], finally we got married.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7399.17,7411.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1096","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where did you get married at?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7411.34,7411.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1097","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Over there at, we was living down on  Liberty Road, Liberty Road with only,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7411.65,7416.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1098","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was living with my parents. Yeah, yeah.  And so, they, my daddy says,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7416.77,7425.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1099","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"And now, since you've been,  got married, are we gonna move?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7425.03,7429.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"No, you ain't gonna move.\" I said, \"I'm gonna move.\" I said, \" You're not gonna","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7429.02,7434.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"work, daddy, come on, this house- this house is for y'all,\" since then, so he said, \"Oh.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7434.06,7442.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I say, \"We're gonna- we're  gonna start renting.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7442.69,7445.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we used to rent a little room  and little bitty kitchen, yeah,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7445.26,7450.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for quite a while. And then we  keep on renting and 1950, when was it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7450.35,7467.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"'55, '54, '50- '50 to 1954, I started giving  a down of one thousand dollars, that's a lot","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7467.0,7474.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of money, on the house and like I say, pay, like I say, the eight thousand, pay 50","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7474.74,7481.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dollars a month, and I, on, after we  had our kids, we was, a little place,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7481.79,7489.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a hamburger stand right there on Elevation  and and- and Hardy, old Hardy Street","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7489.31,7497.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and little bitty hole in the wall.  They sell hamburgers five dollar,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7497.25,7504.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five for a dollar. Oh, we used to have-  we used to have a party. We'd take a boy,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7504.35,7509.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we had hamburgers and all of this,  and my kids used to love that. .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7509.84,7514.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They- they were selling good hamburgers  there for five to a dollar.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7514.24,7517.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, five for a dollar.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503#t=7517.88,7519.29"}]},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109061/file/210503/transcript/64958/annotation/1114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/064/958/original/transcript_1708705918.vtt20240223-673661-be4zwo.vtt?1708687919","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/064/958/original/transcript_1708705918.vtt20240223-673661-be4zwo.vtt?1708687919"}]}]}]}