Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978 Page: 4
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Marcello:more or less resented us and referred to us as "feather
merchants."
Now when did you get out of San Diego?
Well, actually I left San Diego and went to the USS Argonne
in Pearl Harbor, which at that time the USS Argonne was a
receiving ship. You hear a lot about a receiving ship, which
actually a lot of times was just a base; but this was a
real ship, and I was assigned to that for further transfer.
While I was there, I received my assignment to the USS
Neosho,and instead of leaving the USS Argonne, I stayed aboard
there and awaited the arrival of the Neosho, When it arrived
in Pearl Harbor, I went aboard as a member of the crew.
What did you think about the idea of being stationed in the
Hawaiian Islands on a permanent basis?
I liked it. I thoroughly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands.
When you received news of your assignment, were you looking
forward to a tropical paradise and hula skirts and all that
sort of thing?
I was a twenty-one-year-old boy at that time, and I never
actually had been out of the state of Texas, so anywhere I
went was new country to me. I've never seen any country as
beautiful as the Hawaiian Islands were at that time.
Of course, at that time the Hawaiian Islands were not dependent
upon the tourist trade. I guess there were only two major
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Lowe, John, Jr. Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978, text, August 7, 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529186/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.