Oral History Interview with Harold Leon, July 7, 2010 Page: 1

                                
Harold Uriah Leon Oral History Interview

PETER RIESZ:   Okay, today is July 7th of the year 2000. It's
2:15 on a Friday afternoon. We're at the home of Mr.
Leon at 2202 East Lorma Vista in Victoria, Texas. I'm
Peter Reese interviewing for the Military Order of World
Wars. Good afternoon, Harold.
HAROLD URIAH LEON: Hi, my name is Harold U. Leon.
PR: What is the u for?
HUL: I tease and say it's useless, but it's actually Uriah.
PR: Oh, that's right. How do you spell Uriah?
HUL: U-R-I-A-H.
PR: All right.
HUL: I was born January 14, 1918, Saint Joseph's Hospital in
Houston, Texas.
PR: Where'd you attend elementary school?
HUL: I don't think you need all this.
PR:  (laughs)
HUL: You really don't.
PR: Well, I just like to get it. One school, or did you move
around?

HUL: I've got so much other stuff that's so much more
important than the elementary school, and the this, and
the that. But if this is what you want -- if you want
some of this, I'll give it to you. The first five grades
I went to Kinkaid, a private school in Houston. My folks
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