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Show Bishop. I knocked him back against the wall and he sat down. h n I to k th tw counselors. So they chucked me out of church. My mother was mortifi d. JAS: Oh, this is Sunday School? BILL: Yeah. Yeah, this was while church was going on. I tried to be good. No, I wasn't. To tell the truth, I was a rotten little bastard. No, I really was. JAS: I find that hard to believe. BILL: No I really was. I had no discipline. No goals. No aims. No nothing. Nobody to tell me you've got to do this, you've got to do that. And if they did, I did what I wanted to anyway. So I graduated from junior high school and just never went back to school. My mother didn't say, well, you've got to go to school. The school board didn't come around and say why aren't you in school. Now perhaps they thought I was in West, and West thought I was in East, and East thought I was in South, and South didn't care where I was. Nobody came around asking me, so I got jobs and just bumming around. Didn't care. Like I say, nobody at home cared. So the Marine Corps was like a breath of fresh air. As soon as I could, boy, I was gone. Now, I didn't intend to come home. I intended to stay in the Marine Corps. When I come home, I was going to stay thirty days. You have thirty days to make up your mind, then you could re-enlist under your same rate. No, it was ninety days that you had. Then I met Cheddy, and we starting dating, and I got a job. JAS: How did the two of you meet? BILL: She was with two friends of hers that were friends of mine that I knew. I was walking down the street, and they happened to be coming the other direction. They just 103 |
