00:02:30 - Family information - 11 siblings, their house was pretty large, boys and girls each had their own rooms.
00:03:00 - Parents were farmers - Sugarcane, potatoes, cotton. The kids helped around the farm
00:04:00 - flood of 1927 - Says they weren't affected badly. Commodities during the depression - food, diet,cuisine;
00:05:00 - Says they had plenty to ear during the depression
00:05:45 - Education - finished high school, parents wanted the kids to all get an education;
00:06:30 - Whole family was bilingual - Only used English in school;
00:07:30 - Description of a day from that era - chores, school, working in the field, feeding cattle;
00:08:30 - Conversation about practical jokes;
00:09:50 - Joined the Army in 1941 - Served in the Pacific as a welder. He was at Pearl Harbor when the attack happened;
00:11:00 - GI checks, payment while he was serving;
00:11:50 - French speakers who he served with - says there was one person from Lafayette who spoke French on his ship;
00:12:30 - French Interpreters in WWII - He was never asked to be an interpreter when he served.
00:13:20 - Electricity in rural Louisiana; Battery operated radio;
00:14:20 - Early refrigeration (Ice Box)
00:16:20 - Would get hired out for work after finishing their work at home;
00:18:15 - Would take horse and buggy to town; Says they couldn't all fit in the buggy at the same time, so they'd take turns going to Mass;
00:20:45 - Discussion about French language, younger generation now learning French in school;
00:22:00 - More discussion about WWII - awards he received

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