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Show CORA LEE JOHNSON MARCH 6, 2002 But she had come from Pennsylvania. And across from us was two cadets, they were out of Cheyenne, what they call Chey-woming, and they were going into Jacksonville, Florida, for training to become pilots. So the four of us teamed right up. So our next stop we had a breakdown in Omaha, Nebraska, and in the meantime, two girls came down and they said, "Are you a SPAR? Are you Coast Guardsman?" And I said, "Yes." They said, "We are too." The older one-I thought, goll, they got someone that old? She must have been all of twenty-five or thirty-she said, "My name is Teresa Lasmabat and her friend was named, the one she just met, was named Dolores Silvas. And she was Spanish but her hair was as blonde as yours and blue eyes. High Spaniard. And they said, "Well, we're going and I was there and we knew that we were waylaid so we had to stay overnight in Chicago." Well, they went and they got a motel--or a hotel, I suppose, at that time. And the four of us-like I say, we were younger-we went around the loop, the first time I ever went to a little underground restaurant, under the ground, the first time I ever did see them serve dill pickles in a quart bottle that you helped yourself right out like that. First time I ever did see anything like that. But the next day, at the railroad station in Chicago, the two cadets left for another train, leaving for Jacksonville, Florida, and Sharon left to go to Pennsylvania. So I thought, my gracious. I asked and, like I said, I had on civilian clothes and I had my papers, all my papers, with me. My gosh, I looked up and there was those two girls, those Coast Guardsmen. Man, I was never so happy to see an yone m· my 11·c1 e. They were different than I was-they smoked. Heck, I never had a cigarette in m Y 1I· ps, not even to thi·s day and I'm ei.g hty-one. But I soon learned that a lot of people smoked; lot of people when we had meetings at night couldn't wait to get out for their first leav e so the y cou1 d have a Bloody Mary or a Sm. gapore Sl.m g-I di. dn't 27 |
