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Show REECE B. ROBERT ON M R H 7 2002 you don t travel much, do you?" But I found out that was true of others. They just didn t seem to travel much. I don't know why, because they had trains. BEN: Where did you meet British girls? Did they have dances that you'd meet at or officer's clubs? REE: No, I don't remember where I met this one. This one, I met her in Cambridge. I think I just met her in the streets (laughs). I don't know where it was. But we didn't have, as I recall, we didn't have ... I wondered when we was going to, while I was in this cavalry unit, we used to have dances. We had a dance, a band that was very good and they'd play dances for us. And they'd take the trucks out, at least at this one place we were stationed, they go out and these girls, local girls, felt perfectly secure, because the Army would put them in their trucks, bring them to the dance, when they were through, take them back. So they were perfectly safe. So we would have some pretty good dances there. Met a lot of girls. Go from one place to the other and they had this thing, and I'd get acquainted with two or three girls here, and two or three. But finally one day they had a big dance that included all these places. I'd been dancing with about six girls. By the time the evening was through, I didn't have any of them (laughs). They were all ... they thought I was theirs. BEN: So you don't remember any dances like that when you were over there? REE: No, nothing in England, France. One time, I don't know, one time in France, when we moved to France, I don't know how we got acquainted. Well, there was this, when I was in France we used to have the Follies Bergere and some of these shows. I got acquainted with this lieutenant, an infantry lieutenant, who happened to be in Paris while we happened to be stationed there. They had places where you could go. And he said 39 |
