Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 3
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Marine Corps. I had never seen a Marine, to my
knowledge, and wouldn't have recognized one had he
walked through the front door. But it was something
that I thought would offer better prospects than
what we were involved in at that particular time of
working in a cotton patch. So I am, in all essence,
a fugitive from a cotton sack. So we left that
cotton sack right at the end of the row.
It took us two days to hitchhike from the
vicinity of Levelland, Texas, to Dallas. On the
morning of January 11--I guess long before office
hours--we were sitting in the hallway outside the
Marine recruiting office ready to enlist. Well, they
told us when we got in there, "We wrote you a letter
to report next month, but now that you're here we'll
go ahead and examine you. " They were on a quota
system then and were pretty strict in whom they
accepted. They rejected my uncle immediately because
he had been in the Army at one time, and after his
dad died--my grandfather--he had gotten a dependency
discharge from the Army. In those days you could buy
yourself out of the Army, but he had used this
dependency angle to support his mother--my
grandmother--and to get out of the Army on that
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Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987, book, December 5, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584976/m1/5/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.