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Show CORA LEE JOHNSON MARCH 6, 2002 while there'd be a packet of mail and he'd say, "Johnson, would you see if you can do directory service for these men. I can't find them." And one of them, you won't believe it, was Jack Dempsey. BEC: Really? COR: You know, he trained-and I went over to Commander Forward, he was one that Commander Snydo took with him, and he was head of the captain of the port division on the base, and I went over there-he was a German man, he spoke with a real German accent-and I said, "I've come to see if you can help me. I have this letter. Someone off one of the Coast Guard cutters or on the ship, they sent a packet of mail to see if I can find out." I said, "I thought you might know about Jack Dempsey." He got me that address. See, he was an older man, too. He said, "I'll tell you. He was from my home state, Jack Dempsey was." He said, "I've always known about Jack Dempsey in my state. He was from here and Colorado." So I got on good. I always did and I always told anyone going into the service, "If you will do what you are told and if you will listen and if you will obey the rules and regulations," I said, "you will have a marvelous experience." I said, "If you go in and you think you can run and you think they won't know what's going on with you," I said, "you'll be very sadly mistaken." Well, anyway, this little Kathy I was telling you about, she came along with a pink slip. That was not a good discharge. But she had to go to every one of the department heads, which I was, we had to sign it to sign her off. BEC: So she got discharged because she went AWOL? COR: Yeah. She said, "Johnson, would you do me a favor." I said, "Anderson, ifi can I will." She said, "When my mail comes don't return it to my folks. 47 |
