Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 Page: 3
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In East Texas and Louisiana, where I grew up, when I was
old enough to start out being old enough to make
decisions for myself, we was in the Depression. That
was in the thirties. Of course, things were really
depressed, and about the only source of income we had
was working for someone on a farm or working in the
logging woods. I remember when I was thirteen or
fourteen years old, I was cutting logs--sawing timber
and making logs out of them so they could be taken to
the mill; making cross-ties; peeling the bark off of
logs for what the companies used as telephone poles and
electric poles. The last couple of years when I was
going to school, in the eighth and ninth grades, I was
staying with one of my aunts in East Texas, and I did
farm work for them on the farm.
So I guess the economic outlook wasn't too bright for
one who did leave school at that time.
That's right. Well, it wasn't too bright for one who
had schooling, either (chuckle).
Where did you take your boot camp?San Diego.
How long did boot camp last at the time you went
through?
It lasted two months. I stayed an extra two months on
special detail because I had a brother that enlisted in3
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, Joseph C. Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989, book, September 19, 1989; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137897/m1/5/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.