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Show CHARLES AND FRIEDA BYTHEW A Y NOVEMBER 6, 2001 BEC: Right. CHA: But, just completely different from Vietnam where everybody was rebelling against everything. Anyway, it was the dedication and I think the saddest part was when it was all over, there was nothing. I mean, there was no JObs or anything. And you didn't know how you were even going to survive after It was over And it was hard to get a job. I worked for, what fifty-seven cents an hour dunng the war and after the war got a JOb for about a dollar an hour; you had to work all day to make eight bucks. So, it was tough after the war more so than dunng the war At least you had a job dunng the war BEC: That's interesting. Well, Fneda, what about you? How would you say the war affected your life? FRI: Well, it made it so I wasn't as sheltered. I knew more of what was going on and you met people that believed differently than you did, otherwise, we were sort of our own little group all the time. You got to meet people who had different, different Ideals than you. In fact, while I was working, I think that was one of the hardest things I went through while working is that other girls that came up from Nephi and different things, that worked at Eitel-McCullough, they were away from home. They did not live up to the standards that I felt like they should, being members of the church. I JUSt didn't feel like I, even being the same religion and everything. And so my best friend turned out to be a little Catholic girl. We would sit there and we would talk about these kids, about what they were doing wrong and she knew It was wrong, even though she knew It was okay for her religion. We sat there and we talked. She was my fnend. And even though she was one religion, I was another religious, she smoked, everything else, 47 |
