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Well I tell you, I was very young. My dad was
section foreman, and back then. I tell you this
before you get it. We was making about fourteen and
a half cents an hour, I believe about a dollar and
something per day, ten hours, a dollar and
something, that's what it was. And there was no
Saturdays, no Sundays, nothing and all of it was
work days, dollar a day, day or night, either one,
you had to work a lot.
So my dad he was foreman, and so, I was going,
got to go in school then. After I got to go in
school a little while, he said they needed a water
boy, and he give me the job as water boy, of course
I'd share some of it, give them some tools.
We was in Camp Leeford long time and so many,
the flu killed them. And they had them piled up
they said like cross ties if you remember, it was
an awful season. And they didn't have enough
caskets for to put them in so they just piled them
up out here till they got the caskets, and I've
never seen this, just picked them up by the heels
and the back of the head, and they wouldn't move,
just frozen stiff. Then it got better there after a
month or two. And they billeted us for oh, I don't
know, maybe Siberia or somewhere, I forget now.
But anyhow on our go, why something else hit us,
I forget what it was. And they stopped us there
with that. We stayed there till the war was
declared over.
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