Oral History Interview with Alex Taylor, August 22, 2001 Page: 20

                                
kind of lonely there in the apartment but I soon learned to get used to the
place. I was disappointed that I couldn't go with him but it was wartime.
After about five or six months I decided to go back home. I traveled by
train going back to Louisiana and it took about five days. It was rough too
because you had the soldiers on there. Being from a small place and to
travel that far made me feel uneasy. I was pregnant with our first child. I
had money and I taped it on me in case I would get robbed. I came home
and stayed with my Mother and Daddy. I had the baby in June, a lovely
little girl named Patricia. Alex wasn't here when she was born. I sent him
a cablegram but they wouldn't let him come. That was the worst part of
the war so he didn't see her until she was a year and five months old.
When Alex finally got home she was so used to me and her grandparents,
she would say, "Who's that man?"
Mr. Cox:           When Alex was on the Enterprise did you think about him being in harm's
way?
Mrs. Taylor:       Oh yes I did. We would get the paper and on the radio we would see how
bad everything was. We didn't have television at that time but we got all

the news on the radio and the newspaper. I stayed anxious that he would
get out and come home safe and sound and not all crippled us like a lot of
the soldiers that were coming home.
Mr. Cox:           Did he write you regularly?

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