Excerpts from Virginia Nichols Oral History Interview

Virginia Nichols Narrative
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“And so we had a lot of fun…we made a lot of fun.”

“I can remember my principal wanted me to take the third year of French, and I told him, in my last year, I didn’t know that I was going on to school and I wanted to have typing. Well, he wasn’t too happy with me, but I ended up taking typing and I ended up working in an office so I was glad I did take they typing!”

“We really weren’t prepared for that bombing and when we heard the news on the radio, I just couldn’t believe it. I just felt terrible because we didn’t know what was going to happen, it was very scary, but he never did come home. 45 months later he came home.”

“I was offered a couple of scholarships, but I just figured what was the point of going on? This is going to end and I’ll get married and then what am I going to do with a job? So I didn’t go on to school and I was very sorry that I didn’t because I could have almost graduated by the time he got out, 45 months, so I was sorry that I didn’t go.”

“45 months is a long time to wait to find out whether your interested or not because I wasn’t sure…I hadn’t seen him and I hadn’t been with him, so I had to turn my interests to what I was doing, to work or whatever.”