Stanley Arceneaux (born 1897);

***Chris captured all but first and last bits of A side***

-Going to France;
-He went up to the 6th/7th grade in school. Learning English in school;
-Signing up for the army April 6th, 1917 (the first day WWI was declared in the U.S.) because he was just patriotic. He was 19/20 years old (born in 1897 in Carencro);
-Reading the newspaper and finding out when the war was declared. Going to Baton Rouge to enlist in the army and staying in the army until August 1919;
-Baton Rouge to New Orleans for a couple of weeks. Then stationed in Camp Nickels, Camp Beauregard (leaving camp in August 1918);
-How was camp? Guard duty. Milling the wood to make Camp Beauregard in 1917;
-President Wilson declaring war because the Germans sunk an American ship (Lusitania) in the English channel;
-He didn't know anything about Germany at that time;
-Staying in the New Orleans for 4-5 months before the war. Staying in Lafayette when he joined;
-Camp Beauregard, training for combat was tough. Split his company in two and drilled. Training a year;
-Rank of Corporal then. Drawing maps;
-Straight to Europe from Camp Beauregard. Hoboken, New Jersey to Marseilles, France;
-Trip to France on the President Grant, 7,000 on that boat;
-Food was good;
-Shipped out of Marseilles, landed in Brest. Camp Brest for 8-10 days, then marched a whole day to a camp in Le Mans for 5-6 months until the end of the war;
-Not seeing any battles, he was a French Interpreter;
-He liked the French, most got along with the Americans. Criticism because many couldn't speak French;
-Training a couple of weeks before sending them to the war. Trench warfare;
-Life in the trenches wasn't very pretty. He only went in the trenches to train. It was muddy, up to your knees;

-The weather was pretty bad, especially the winter. Snow on the ground. Flu epidemic (10:25);
-Experiences with wounded soldiers, not much other than seeing them coming back from the front and being sent to the hospital;
-The war didn't really make an impression on him;
-He was too young to realize what was going on, he doesn't know what he thought of the war;
-Living in barracks in France, sometimes tents, sometimes in barns on French farms. Going around the country with lieutenants to make requisitions for the soldiers;
-The U.S. government had to pay for rent and damages to properties. Tearing down the side of a barn to use the wood for heat. Repaying damages;
-Staying from November 1918 until August the following year. He was glad to come back home after he heard the war was over;
-Never met any English soldiers;
-Using gas during the war. Gas masks, taking them off just to get a whiff of the gas. Mustard gas;
-Gas wasn't too good;
-It wasn't too bad for him because he was working with the French policemen, eating with the French at their house;
-He liked the French, the crippled, women, and children?;
-War devastated the French. They came almost to Paris, through Belgium. Using taxi cabs to bring soldiers to the front. Not too many trucks at that time;
-Hauling material with the trucks. Lots of walking;
-One day, sleeping all night on a bare cement floor. Eating hard tack, walking all day long, pouring down rain. 12 hrs and 66. Hard tack and canned meat. It was tough;

-A brother in the same company with him. Separated over there. He was sent to officer training school 6 months before the war was over. Not seeing him until they came back home (19:15);
-He became a Second Lieutenant while in France;
-Enlisted man vs. Officer life, not much difference. Duties changed;
-What was it like when they came home;
-Discharged in New Jersey, Camp Merit. Coming home on a train;
-$100-something to buy his tickets and expenses to get home;
-Economy had changed a whole lot, everything was more expensive when he came back. Shirt for $1 vs. $10-12;
-Working in an automobile shop as a mechanic. Learning from a New Orleans trade school. He was only working for a few weeks when war was declared;
-Going to work on the railroad from 1922-1963 (41 years service on the railroad);
-Americans had understood where he had been, what he had been doing;
-Barry found 3 other WWI Vets from Scott: Claude Hebert, Louis Delhomme, Lucien Domingue;
-Picking peaches. Train blew from L'Anse La Butte to Breaux Bridge. Boys without legs and arms affected her. The first thing they wanted to give was a bullet. She didn't want that. She was a little girl;
-She married a WWI Vet, his time, not hers;
-Julien still in Breaux Bridge, giving up his home because no one could help care for him. Government projects;
-Picking and eating peaches. Getting sunstroke?;
-Most of the boys were from St. Martin Parish. Wounded soldiers. Lady cooking across the depot in Breaux Bridge. "Doo Doo" coming on the next train;
-Her brother had a record of 365 days of combat in WWII, he's on a pension, but he came back all in one piece. Bullets went through;
-Dying of a heart attack, got hurt in an automobile accident with a fractured skull. 52 when he died. He didn't get hurt in the war;
-Her and her momma were sick. Old French doctor (Dr. Fourgeau?) prescribed drinking three glasses of wine a day along with cold medicine? He came to the U.S. after the war, didn't know anything about the flu;
-Bernice, born after that;
-Putting the war...?;

-MPs. Transferring from one camp to another. Young boy didn't want to take orders (30:25);
-Training. Whipping one that wouldn't give in. He was as tough as a mule, from Cecila. Dupuis fellow;
-WWI drafted crippled, insane. He was almost insane?;
-Coming back from WWI, falling in love with a girl and starting a family. Army in WWI, Navy in WWII. He's 4-5 months younger. Oklahoma. Smart guy;
-Working on a farm, smothering potatoes and cooking eggs for breakfast;
-Applying for a pension, wanting to get out because he was hurt all over. Trying to work, but not being able to stay on a job. No pension because he didn't complain at the time. Her brother;
-Sending to Mississippi to get discharged;
-One telephone in Carencro. 78 Breaux, store had a telephone. No automobiles, no gravel roads;
-Born on a farm, just before you get to Canrencro on the right between the railroad tracks and the highway;
-55-acre farm where they grew cotton, corn, potaotes, sugar cane and syrup mill;
-Comeaux lived in Leroy?;
-Never having been to school, J.J. Press/French? and Gaston Hebert, never went to school, but went to USL;
-His brother went to high school, but he went too;
-J.J. never went to school and was appointed as W.P. Learning to write their name and their occupation;
-Not everyone could go, like Ulysse. Had to be somewhat disabled;
-People moving from the country to town. J.J. from Loreauville. Going to USL to learn a trade;
-Winston/Wilson has that office;
-Husband going on the railroad after the war because he had a big family and they couldn't give him what he wanted. He could work and keep what he made for himself;
-First experience making money. Selling cotton to make a little bit of money;
-Gaston learning to read. Watchman to chief of police. He was smart, too bad he didn't have education;
-No schools back in the day. Private schools;

Stanley Arceneaux (born 1897)