Even radar was unheard of when I first went into the service. Then suddenly, they started putting bedsprings up on the tops of ships. |
How the West Was Won. |
I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck. |
I had a horse in Mexico one time that I rode. He was just bones when I got him. I started feeding him bread and everything else. I called him Bimbo after the bread down there. "Here Bimbo," and he'd come running. He knew me, God bless him. I often wondered what happened to him. |
I'm what you call a Depression sailor. |
I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people. |
Talk about cowboys. That's my passion. I think it's just wonderful when the studios revert back to doing westerns again. |
The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too. |