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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=10.50671,14.77453"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you for allowing us to be here today. Please tell us your name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=14.77453,20.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"John Castillo.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=20.07,21.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you spell that for us?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=21.38,25.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J-O-H-N C-A-S-T-I- Double L-O.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=25.04,27.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you tell me your current age? Can you tell me your current age?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=27.14,32.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How old are you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=32.25,33.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm 93 years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=33.75,35.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=35.73,38.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=38.96,40.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=40.04,40.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born in- born in Gregory, Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=40.67,42.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What year were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=42.95,45.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1921.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=45.41,47.78"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When did you first come to Houston?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=47.78,52.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"With the start of the Depression. We had to go somewhere-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=52.77,56.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My father lost his job 'cause it hit where he was working and we had to go","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=56.37,60.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where he might find work. That's when we came to Houston.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=60.96,64.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=64.56,64.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At that time, I was about nine years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=64.68,68.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What are your parents' names? What's your father's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=68.19,71.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jose, Jose Castillo.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=71.76,73.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And where is he from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=73.91,75.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was born in- in Brownsville, Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=75.56,78.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did he end up in Gregory, Texas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=78.8,81.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pardon me?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=81.14,81.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did he end up in Gregory, Texas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=81.77,84.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, that's where my mother was born. Well, my mother was born in Rockport,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=84.14,89.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but she lived, they lived in Gregory and [I met him] when he came out of the army.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=89.04,96.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He probably met her, and that's why he came to Gregory and they got married they got","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=96.46,103.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married nine- 1919.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=103.18,108.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, 1919, that's when they got married. My father came out of the army in 1918.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=108.4,115.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Was your father a veteran of World War One?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=115.88,118.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=118.43,119.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did he go overseas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=119.57,121.49"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pardon me?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=121.49,122.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Was he overseas in World War One? Did he go to Europe? Was he in Germany?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=122.09,128.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think so. He went to Europe. I don't know where, what part","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=128.5,131.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of Europe he went to, but he- he went to Europe. He- he was in the mounted cavalry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=131.47,136.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, sir. And what is your mother's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=136.81,141.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Juanita Lopez Castillo.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=141.33,144.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/45","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/109062/file/210504#t=144.64,147.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have, I had five brothers. Three of them have died already.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=147.22,153.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What- what are their names, what are your brothers' names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=153.18,156.78"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All- all my brothers' name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=156.78,157.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, sir.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=157.68,158.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, [...] from the second one from me is Fernando. 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And Jesse, the youngest one, was born in 1941.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=181.33,194.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so when you all came-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=194.08,195.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have no sisters.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=195.26,196.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, sir. And when you all came to Houston, did everyone come together to Houston?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=196.15,202.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pardon me?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=202.96,203.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did everyone come together to Houston when you moved to Houston from Gregory?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=203.47,207.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, when we came over here to Houston, we were just, we- we just, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=207.48,216.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we were three, and the other three were born later here in Houston.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=216.66,221.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Which neighborhood did you grow up in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=221.92,224.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We lived in almost every neighborhood. We- we turn it up and lived where,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=224.62,229.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they call it Sixth Ward, over on Washington Avenue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=229.09,232.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then later on, we moved to the Fifth Ward on- on Hardy Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=232.53,242.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then later on, we moved to Second Ward on Canal.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=242.6,250.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then from there in- in 1937, yeah, 1937, my- my dad received some money from","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=250.02,262.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the government for- for the war, you know. They call it a bonus. And he bought some","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=262.88,267.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"land and, off of Liberty Road and built a house there, and that's where he","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=267.4,272.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived until, well the house still there. One of my nieces lives there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=272.98,279.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And- and then we all grew up and went separate ways.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=279.31,284.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I came here from Eldorado in 1955.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=284.84,291.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What- what was it like in the Sixth Ward when you first moved there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=291.34,295.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was the neighborhood like, can you describe the neighborhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=295.63,300.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=300.1,300.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Sixth Ward when you first moved to Houston?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=300.76,302.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh. I, well, the neighborhood I lived in all, was run from Center Street and,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=302.8,313.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Center and Washington Avenue. And it was mixed- mixed people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=313.25,319.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There wasn't just, it wasn't just Mexicanos or white,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=319.46,323.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they were white, and we went to school, [...] School? Of course,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=323.57,331.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at that time, we had to walk. There was no- no- no bus,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=331.34,335.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but we could- we could walk. And in Fifth Ward there were","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=335.0,343.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mostly Mexican people live there and so did Second Ward","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=343.58,348.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and then the neighborhood where my father lived was [...], it was a mixed neighborhood too,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=348.85,354.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it was all colors of black, white and Mexican.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=354.19,359.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you describe any of the houses you grew up in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=359.82,362.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Excuse me?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=362.7,363.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you describe any of the houses you grew up in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=363.39,366.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The house that I built?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=366.42,367.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The houses that you grew up with, that you remember living in,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=367.62,369.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what were those houses like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=369.81,370.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, by that- by the time that we had the house there I was already a teenager.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=370.72,377.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I would work for Western Union delivering telegrams. And then I- I went to,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=377.99,392.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in 1938 went to the CCC camp. It was called the Civilian Conservation Corps.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=392.71,400.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was a- a project that President Roosevelt ordered to get young people off the streets,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=400.56,408.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I guess, to put 'em to work somewhere, and we would get $30 a month,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=408.61,417.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they would send home $22 and they would let you keep $8 for yourself, you know, flush.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=417.06,425.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Anyway, I spent about a year there and then came back, back at home, and I lived at home","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=425.31,434.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"until I got married in 1940. And then I moved- I moved to the Fifth ward. From- from there,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=434.73,448.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"close to where neighborhoods we used to live before and lived there until 1955.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=448.14,456.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I bought the house here. The- the first [...] years that I first came out of the army,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=456.04,462.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"well I earned money, but not- not enough money to buy a house, but enough money to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=462.67,467.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"live on. And I only had one kid, you know, [it wasn't bad] and [it- it was] it took about,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=467.71,481.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it was 1955 until I- I had- we had enough money then to buy my place here and I've been here ever since.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=481.91,491.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's talk about the CCC. When you- when you did work for them,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=491.92,495.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where were you doing the work at?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=495.97,498.49"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At the CCC we did [...] East Texas, close to Lufkin. 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It wasn't a very big city at all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1033.29,1037.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The- the tallest buildings here were the Gulf Building and the,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1037.81,1043.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that other building right close to it, I forget the name of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1043.4,1046.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There was only two big buildings. All the rest of 'em was just building.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1046.21,1051.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But now golly. People that went away from here and come back can't recognize","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1051.91,1058.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the city no more.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1058.71,1061.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then at home, what language was spoken at home? Did y'all speak English?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1061.23,1065.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did y'all speak Spanish? Did y'all speak both?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1065.34,1068.49"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1068.49,1068.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What languages did you guys speak at home? What language did you speak at home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1068.64,1073.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you speak English?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1073.84,1075.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Just what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1075.04,1075.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What language did you speak at home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1075.84,1081.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't think I understand the question.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1081.07,1082.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's OK. Let's talk about when you entered into the army. When did you first hear about","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1082.48,1089.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the war breaking out in 1942?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1089.59,1093.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The VFW?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1093.24,1094.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, no, when did you first hear about the war? About the Second World War?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1094.23,1098.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When did you first get news about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1098.94,1101.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Which, when it happen, right, Pearl Harbor. Right then from the beginning.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1101.31,1107.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And how did you feel about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1107.34,1109.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Not good. Because, well one thing that they didn't come over here, they didn't","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1109.57,1117.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"attack the mainland, but nobody felt good about that. Everybody- everybody you know","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1117.93,1127.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at that I was working at the engravings, you know, [that company engraving] and I wanted to,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1127.86,1138.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"even though I had to- I had to leave my wife, I still wanted to go because all the other ones","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1138.01,1142.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were going and also I- I needed to, I- I figured that good, it was my country,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1142.82,1152.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born here and I- I- I wanted to serve. 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But I- I went then I- I left another","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1163.51,1170.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"job that I had inside and everything and went to work at the shipyard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1170.81,1175.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harder work, but I felt I was helping the war effort until- until I was drafted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1175.17,1184.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then, and I was ready to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1184.18,1188.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How old were you when you- when you were drafted?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1188.4,1191.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Twenty.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1191.62,1194.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What did your family feel about you being drafted? 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And they were trying to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1224.69,1232.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"get enough people here from the area to man another cruiser they were building","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1232.68,1240.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for us already, and that's when I volunteered for the Navy- for the Navy. But that's when I was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1240.03,1246.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rejected on account of being married, and I wouldn't- I couldn't sign","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1246.93,1251.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"an affidavit saying that my wife would be taken care of financially,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1251.28,1255.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so then I had to wait. And by the time they call me, we already had a child.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1255.87,1266.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then they not only, they have to pay her, they pay the child too. So it cost them","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1266.11,1271.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more for making me wait, but-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1271.48,1277.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did you feel when they told you you couldn't volunteer?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1277.2,1279.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You wanted to volunteer and they tell you no, how did that make you feel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1279.99,1283.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I didn't feel good about it, but there's nothing, there's nothing","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1283.95,1288.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that was gonna make me leave my wife and off to, no, I couldn't do that either.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1288.75,1297.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1297.31,1297.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1297.7,1300.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So then you get drafted, which branch of the military did you get drafted into?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1300.69,1304.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Into the Army. I got drafted into the army.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1304.79,1308.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where did you do your training at? Where did you go for training for boot camp?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1308.61,1315.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where did you get training at? Where did you do your training for the army?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1315.1,1319.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What did I do in the service?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1319.0,1320.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, the training for the Army, where did you do your training?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1320.5,1327.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was your training like? 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And just about time we could finish up and everything, they tell us,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1416.16,1421.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"We moving out.\" We to go pick up the gun again, cover the hole up and go pick another hole","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1421.0,1428.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"somewhere else. 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Do you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1901.79,1902.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/359","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know. 'Cause sometimes you don't even know if you did it or not because [...].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1902.66,1908.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/360","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean I'm shooting then it- it could have been your gun, could have been somebody else's gun,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1908.74,1913.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/361","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but we shot planes down. I- I- I- I couldn't tell you if- if we, one of our guys did it or not,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1913.4,1924.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/362","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but if everybody's shooting up there sure- sure- surely we hit something.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=1924.04,1929.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/363","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where the plane shooting back at 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You don't even know if somebody, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2077.93,2090.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/390","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got hit or anything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2090.93,2093.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/391","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did- had- did you witness anybody get hit?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2093.42,2096.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/392","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I heard some that they were hit in the water, some barges. 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That- that could take some life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2129.25,2136.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/397","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2136.23,2136.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/398","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I know some of the others like in Okinawa, they, lost a lot of people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2136.38,2149.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/399","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/109062/file/210504#t=2149.51,2153.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/400","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I went to- I- I didn't go to Okinawa, but I could hear about things like that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2153.21,2158.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/401","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know? They- we deliver- let us know which [incident, we had news]. Newscast.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2158.13,2169.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/402","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There were some islands out there that were very rough because the Japanese had caves","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2169.82,2176.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/403","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they were stuck in them caves, they could be, they could be bombed all day and all night","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2176.96,2182.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/404","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the shore, from the- from the- from the beach to the shore like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2182.6,2188.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/405","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And you get there and they're still there because they would get down in there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2188.07,2193.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/406","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then there was a- a company of soldiers from New Mexico and Arizona.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2193.43,2200.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/407","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was mostly Mexicans and Indian, and- and they were infantry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2200.95,2207.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/408","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And them- them guys were mean, they didn't take any prisoners,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2207.73,2214.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/409","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they didn't mind killing people. Because they- they would go into-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2214.13,2228.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/410","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was that unit called?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2228.99,2232.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/411","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They- they- they, I didn't see them do it. But some of the stuff they told me, [...]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2232.44,2241.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/412","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that they would take flamethrowers and fire inside of those caves and if- if anything burned","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2241.38,2251.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/413","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in there, it- it would be Japanese people burning. Because they- they- they knew that someone was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2251.28,2258.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/414","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in there and then they'd go in with flamethrowers. They didn't mess around. with 'em.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2258.89,2263.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/415","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And them guys- them guys were tough. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2263.55,2273.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/416","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What kind of Indians were you, are you talking about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2273.53,2276.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/417","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What kind of Indians were they? The ones from Arizona, New Mexico,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2276.5,2280.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/418","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you said, was Mexican Indian- Indians. What kind of Indians?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2280.26,2284.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/419","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Indians, American Indians, you know, the- the ones that were here first?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2284.3,2294.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/420","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No. How long were you in New Guinea for? How long were you in New Guinea?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2294.26,2300.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/421","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In New Guinea?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2300.08,2300.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/422","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, how long were you there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2300.66,2303.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/423","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, altogether, including Indi- New Guinea and the Philippine Islands,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2303.46,2312.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/424","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think it was 'bout 18 months, 20, 'bout 20 months I think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2312.08,2323.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/425","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...] well the war ended in A- in August of '45 and we had- we had started","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2323.72,2332.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/426","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from- from the United States and in January of '44, [we were there a pretty good while].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2332.12,2344.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/427","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Were you still overseas when the war ended or did you come back home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2344.52,2349.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/428","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When- when the war was over, I was ready to come home because I had enough points,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2349.71,2355.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/429","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to come home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2355.37,2356.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/430","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What does that mean? Enough points? What do you mean by that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2356.19,2358.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/431","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They give you so many points for different things, I guess,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2358.96,2361.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/432","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I had- I had 12 points and that was gonna be enough to I didn't have","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2361.16,2366.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/433","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go to Japan if I didn't want to, and if I wanted to, I could have gone","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2366.87,2371.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/434","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with my outfit to Japan but I chose to come home instead","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2371.4,2377.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/435","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because well, I still, the war was over anyway, and I still had a family at home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2377.26,2385.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/436","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And- and you know, no, no matter how- how- how- how much you think or anything,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2385.94,2394.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/437","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you still worry about by home, you know, you worry if you're gonna still have a home","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2394.37,2399.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/438","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when you get home, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2399.65,2402.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/439","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"'Cause I know some of the fellas didn't- didn't do so good, you know, it was,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2402.4,2415.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/440","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"especially the married guys, you know. Sometimes they find out things they didn't","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2415.24,2421.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/441","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like, and I guess, I was lucky, I guess, because I had my part","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2421.87,2431.9"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/442","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the family and her part of the family taking care of my wife and my baby so,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2431.9,2437.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/443","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but the baby when I left was five months old when I came home, she was almost four years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2437.6,2449.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/444","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And she lives in the next block she lives 'bout a block away from here right now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2449.37,2455.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/445","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When you were overseas, before you come home, before the war is over, how did you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2455.22,2460.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/446","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"communicate with family back at home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2460.5,2462.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/447","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You couldn't. You couldn't, you had to wait until you got here because I- I didn't know","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2462.84,2469.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/448","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"even if they had a telephone. Because when I went- when I left, they didn't have","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2469.59,2474.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/449","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a telephone when I left. But I- I bet they did have a phone,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2474.51,2481.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/450","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I- I- I didn't know a number. And- and mail was all messed up at","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2481.15,2489.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/451","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that time because they don't know where to send 'em but send the letters that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2489.68,2492.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/452","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because I was, they were like in limbo up there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2492.95,2497.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/453","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had to wait for- for ride back. In other words, I had to wait","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2497.24,2503.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/454","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"'till the ship was coming to the United States before","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2503.96,2505.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/455","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I could get back. And, and I was in the Philippines.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2505.76,2516.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/456","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I got, I- I didn't get out of there, a war was [going down] in August and I didn't","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2516.28,2524.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/457","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"get out of there 'till November. And coming back [..] 17 days, instead we got home,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2524.63,2531.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/458","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got to California in 17 days. Oh, and- and we got the [...] in California to- to be debriefed","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2531.83,2542.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/459","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and all that stuff, and then they put us on the train to come back to Texas, the ones","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2542.04,2549.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/460","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming from Texas. And I got to San Antonio on Christmas, Christmas morning of 1945,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2549.69,2561.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/461","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I- and I didn't get home until the 29th because I had to be discharged,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2561.45,2571.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/462","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, had to- they do a lot of stuff before you get discharged, and they gotta","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2571.11,2576.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/463","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"get our information and you got a lot of things to do. So it takes a couple of days","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2576.48,2583.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/464","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and it's not- it's not as fast as it was going in, it's slower coming out. But-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2583.26,2595.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/465","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did you feel about you-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2595.68,2597.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/466","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got home, [when I- when I got] out of- out of San Antonio, I got on a bus","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2597.33,2605.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/467","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I got to a bus station here in Houston and then the, if I had- if I had known","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2605.58,2615.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/468","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they had a phone, I could've called my dad or somebody to come and get me,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2615.16,2619.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/469","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I just went over to where it had a bus stop to go, going to the [...].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2619.69,2627.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/470","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I- I got the housing right away, but my dad took me where my wife was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2627.29,2633.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/471","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the baby, and they were with were- her folks. And- and they were glad to see me","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2633.66,2641.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/472","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming back, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2641.3,2642.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/473","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did they know you were coming back?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2642.74,2644.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/474","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Huh?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2644.48,2644.78"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/475","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did they know, were they expecting you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2644.78,2646.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/476","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I- I think they were because they- they said that they- they had names of people","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2646.88,2653.9"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/477","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming from- from overseas in the paper. They had some names of people coming back,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2653.9,2662.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/478","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and my wife told me that she had seen my name come- coming back, but she didn't know when,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2662.21,2667.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/479","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when it's gonna be.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2667.61,2669.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/480","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What did she say when she saw you? What did your wife say when she saw you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2669.63,2677.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/481","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Well she was glad to a see me again, I was to see her too].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2677.37,2677.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/482","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What did you say- what did you say to the baby?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2677.55,2680.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/483","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How old was your baby when you got back?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2680.85,2682.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/484","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was almost four. She was- yeah she was, well she was three in August.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2682.5,2692.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/485","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, in, by December [...], you know, three years and a few months.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2692.18,2708.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/486","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did you feel about the war being over?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2708.2,2710.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/487","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Good. Good because we won.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2710.69,2715.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/488","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If we had, if President Truman had not dropped those bombs, I probably wouldn't be","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2715.07,2722.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/489","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here giving an interview because we would all have been sent to invade Japan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2722.71,2728.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/490","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And a lot of us would not have made it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2728.44,2737.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/491","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did your family feel about the end of the war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2737.58,2740.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/492","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Who?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2740.82,2740.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/493","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Your family, how did your wife and your mother and father feel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2740.97,2742.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/494","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, they were glad it's over. Sure, they were glad,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2742.8,2746.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/495","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they were glad it was over and that nothing happened to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2746.01,2750.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/496","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Were you ever wounded?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2750.17,2751.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/497","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No. No I was not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2751.67,2760.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/498","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had long time things that happened because of my hearing that- that 40 millimeter,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2760.88,2770.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/499","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it- it messes up your hearing, and we couldn't keep anything","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2770.54,2777.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/500","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from- from hearing because you had to listen to orders so you had to have","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2777.25,2784.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/501","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the noise too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2784.44,2787.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/502","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that's why, the VA does a lot for me now. When they gave me that machine there so I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2787.44,2797.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/503","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"could see and I got hearing aids so I can hear and even then, sometimes I can't hear","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2797.12,2803.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/504","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good enough, but, you know, a lot of people complain about the VA, but I- I- I cannot","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2803.51,2813.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/505","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"complain because they take care of me. I- I- I had nothing but good, see,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2813.79,2822.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/506","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I was working, during my working days after- after the army, I never went to the VA","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2822.73,2827.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/507","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for any treatments [...] everywhere I worked, I had insurance for my family and for myself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2827.56,2834.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/508","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And after I retired, then I was retired at 65 and I- I could no longer afford","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2834.52,2850.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/509","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all of that insurance because it was pretty high.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2850.31,2853.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/510","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I had kept Medicare and then I also had the VA,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2853.91,2862.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/511","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so the VA has done a lot. Yeah, they have done a lot [for me].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2862.88,2871.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/512","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's talk about your unit for a moment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2871.93,2874.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/513","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2874.21,2874.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/514","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's talk about your unit. What was your unit called?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2874.42,2880.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/515","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The, your unit in the army.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2880.94,2883.9"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/516","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[We- we- we were, we were just a gun section], it was-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2883.9,2892.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/517","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was the size of the gun section unit?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2892.48,2894.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/518","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2894.61,2895.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/519","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was the size of it? How many men served in your unit?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2895.0,2897.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/520","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was about 15 men. Yeah we had- they had a sergeant in charge, then they had two- two","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2897.43,2903.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/521","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"corporals, and we had, and another, they- they had one for every- every, they had.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2903.76,2911.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/522","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...] you know, the remote control. It was worked up by a generator, and they had a guy","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2911.22,2921.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/523","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that was a truck driver and a gen- the generator, he would take care of that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2921.11,2925.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/524","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, he'd take care of the truck and the generator. And- and that's how","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2925.76,2935.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/525","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we got the electricity, you know, we had the generator, we had- we had electric lights [in our tents]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2935.22,2941.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/526","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because we'd live by ourselves up, isolated in- in a different section","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2941.37,2945.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/527","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to get away from the other- the other ones. We're not all together all the time,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=2945.39,2952.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/528","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like an infantry unit's, it's all together. 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It looked like Buck Rogers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3350.7,3358.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/595","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And what neighborhood did you live in when you came back home from the war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3358.51,3362.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/596","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Huh?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3362.95,3363.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/597","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What neighborhood did you live in when you came back home from the war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3363.22,3366.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/598","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fifth Ward.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3366.94,3368.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/599","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, 'cause it was closer to work. 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Man now everywhere you go,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3383.66,3389.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/604","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everybody killing each other and stabbing and wow. I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3389.33,3397.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/605","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But besides work, did you join any organizations when you came home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3397.62,3403.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/606","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, I didn't get into the VFW until after I retired because I- I didn't,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3403.13,3410.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/607","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't want to join an organization and then not participate in it, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3410.34,3416.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/608","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so when- when I retired, then I had my time, I didn't have to worry about work,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3416.99,3424.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/609","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then I joined the VFW.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3424.66,3430.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/610","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What- what is the purpose of the VFW? 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Where do y'all have meetings at?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3635.62,3640.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/642","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where do y'all have meetings at? Where does the VFW meet?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3640.34,3644.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/643","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's what he does.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3644.0,3645.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/644","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3645.14,3647.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/645","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Huh?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3647.09,3647.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/646","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where? Where do y'all gather? Where do y'all have your meetings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3647.1,3650.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/647","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3650.81,3651.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/648","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3651.29,3652.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/649","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, we have a post right, this post that I belong to is over here on Denver Harbor","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3652.13,3658.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/650","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on Texarkana Street. 8930. [And I served] in- in there until- until last year, yeah,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3658.25,3674.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/651","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was 92 years old, when I finally told 'em I- I could do it no more, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3674.51,3680.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/652","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because that rifle got [...] got, it got heavier for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3680.1,3685.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/653","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it only weighs nine pounds. And when I was in the army,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3685.68,3690.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/654","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it didn't, it was like nothing, [...] everywhere. And now I'm,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3690.99,3697.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/655","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"used to struggle with it. [So no] I've had it already","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3697.73,3703.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/656","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and it's okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3703.23,3706.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/657","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Di- was it the VFW that helped you get your recommendations?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3706.46,3710.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/658","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[What]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3710.3,3710.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/659","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Was it the VFW that helped you with the recommendations?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3710.42,3713.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/660","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you receive recommendations from the war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3713.57,3715.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/661","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, yeah, they, the commander there, asked me if I had- had my medals given","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3715.64,3725.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/662","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to me. And I said, \"No, no, I got the ribbons, but I never got the medals,\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3725.54,3732.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/663","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and he said, \"Well, we'll get them.\" Then- then he wrote to somebody","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3732.68,3737.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/664","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they got 'em and they sent 'em to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3737.57,3741.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/665","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3741.35,3742.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/666","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Four.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3742.19,3744.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/667","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What kind of medals?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3744.64,3747.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/668","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of 'em was a good conduct, one of 'em is the American campaign. The other one is","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3747.19,3753.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/669","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Asiatic-Pacific campaign. And what's the other one?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3753.86,3762.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/670","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh the red, liberty, I mean, the victory- victory- Victory Medal, that's four,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3762.38,3771.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/671","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the Philippine Liberation, I didn't get the medal,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3771.99,3778.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/672","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got the ribbon. They said that they got the medal too, but I never had gotten it,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3778.2,3785.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/673","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I'm entitled to if I want to, if I ask for it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3785.28,3795.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/674","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And how many kids do you have now, how many children do you have now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3795.57,3800.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/675","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many kids do you have?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3800.04,3801.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/676","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Four. One girl and three boys.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3801.69,3807.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/677","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What are your boys' names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3807.12,3810.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/678","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[What]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3810.02,3810.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/679","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What are the names of your boys? What are the names of your boys?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3810.32,3814.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/680","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, well, 'bout my oldest daughter, well, youn- my only- my daughter,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3814.65,3821.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/681","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she was the oldest. She was born in 1942.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3821.03,3827.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/682","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What is her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3827.26,3828.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/683","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the next one, Rudy is the oldest of the boys.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3828.16,3834.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/684","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was born in 1948 on the last day of the- the last day of the year,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3834.52,3840.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/685","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so that's like '49 almost. And the other one, 19- 1951 and the youngest one was born in 1960.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3840.52,3860.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/686","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And where do your children live now? Where do your kids live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3860.51,3866.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/687","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Huh?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3866.21,3866.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/688","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where do they live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3866.33,3867.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/689","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where they live? 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He lives up there by Lake Travis.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3882.37,3888.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/692","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He's got a nice home up there. And the youngest one lives","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3888.74,3893.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/693","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over here off of Wallisville and the Beltway for Woodforest.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3893.6,3906.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/694","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He's the only one working. The other ones don't work anymore,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3906.17,3909.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/695","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they're retired.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3909.48,3913.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/696","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You had mentioned that one of your kids also is a 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Did I like the service?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504#t=3959.89,3961.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109062/file/210504/transcript/64962/annotation/715","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nah, just, this is the end of the interview. 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