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Claude Hebert (born 1895):

Circa. 1984

-Drilling there. Quarter masters and medics didn't know how to drill. Squad was alright, but a company made a lot of mistakes;
-Marching the whole company against the building, not knowing commands;
-Sleeping in trenches, dirt falling in your face;
-Snowing in Leon Springs? 5 miles north of San Antonio. Walking his beat, light in the canteen. Square box on the landing by the canteen where they'd unload the freight. Pulling on the box until he got on the ground. Getting in the box. Maybe shooting him if they found him sleeping?;
-Lost his bayonet, drilling without it. Not punished for it;
-Reporting to the artillery company. Wanting to pay for it again, he hadn't sold it, just lost it;
-All quarter masters and medics (non-combatant) who want to go back to their outfit, won't pass. Same rank and pay they had in their outfit;
-Corporal after he got back. Extent of his fighting;
-Getting back in March;
-Everybody was busy trying to do something. Going back to the superintendent in school, $80/month. Living with his grandfather, then going to a hotel (not wanting to give his grandmother any trouble);
-Cousine Fémie (Mrs. LeBlanc). Friend Lede? Landry living at her hotel too;
-Grandfather didn't want him to pay $15/month. No welfare. He had a big garden from which he'd sell vegetables;
-Growing sugar cane and making a little money before moving to town;
-Living with them and working with Dr. Williams (superintendent);
-Finishing college at LSU. Officers were younger and less educated than him. He had to salute them. They wore leather leggings. Getting a degree so he could be an officer and people could salute him;
-Getting a Master's degree when he got back from Haiti. 1931, during the Depression. You couldn't buy a job;
-Saved $6,500. Plantation near New Iberia. Corporation of New Iberia. Southwest Louisiana Fair to the Cypress Swamp. 175 acres of land for exactly $6,500. $1,300 cash and 33 years to pay the rest at $130 a year;
-It hadn't been planted on 5 years;
-Blood Weed/Herbes à Cochon (break them and their red inside). Old barn with no roof, doors hanging. No house. Couldn't sell, maybe steal during the Depression;
-Spending his money and not having anything in 10 years. Paying more with a Master's degree;

-Farm now has 5 oil wells in the swamp (10:37);
-Land next to New Iberia sells for thousands-of dollars an acre - first time he missed being rich;
-Smoking 50-cents cigar and drink some good whiskey if he'd be rich. He wouldn't be 89 years old now;
-Coming to Scott. Got his Master's and various work. Teaching for 24 years;
-82.5 acres of land right by the Church. School given by the people that owned the land. Coco Shoe Store in Lafayette was selling it for $3,000. He could've bought it and developed it;
-Measuring the 10 acres the school had for $1,500/acre. Houses paid more than that;
-The first wife wanted to be close to the church, but she didn't want to see dead people. She didn't go to funerals, not even her father's (he was in Donaldsonville and she was in Youngsville);
-Place for sale where you don't see dead people. Bought this (1 acre of land and the house) for $5,000. Garage cost $10,000 30 years later. Addition cost $27,000 plus the cost of furniture;
-Not that things are worth more than it was in the past. Money is worth less;
-Ms. Onézia Beatle? Interviewing her and him on tv. His hobby or his life: agriculture;
-Haiti, he wasn't teaching. He'd visit the schools and give a speech in French or Creole;
-Hotels over there, walls are 8' high, and 4 more feet without a wall to allow for ventilation. Could climb into the other rooms;
-Drinking rum and talking Creole. Haitians talking about whites. They mistook even his accent as local;
-Talking English, French, and Creole. Thinking in each respective language. Not thinking in one language and translating into another;
-She doesn't have an education like him. She started at the telephone company at about 16 years old in 1914. It didn't take her long to learn, needle-system;
-Operation the telephone system, directing calls. Working at night, fire or emergency was exciting. Calling the police;
-Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Bares?;
-During the war, 14 girls before the flu epidemic. 7 after. Hard work. So many people dying. Too busy, not enough operation/work;
-WWII, working in Leesville. In New Iberia during WWI. She was born in Patoutville/Grand Marais;
-12 children, 6 boys and 6 girls;
-?, Eisenhower, Bradley, Paton, etc.;
-Soldiers coming in. Soldiers calling their families?;
-Simpler?;

Claude Hebert (born 1895)