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experience as a combat medic in vietnam. this is just over an hour. we re here at the west point center for oral history history on february 23rd, 2015 with mr. henry james thomas. hello, mr. thomas. hi. how are you doing? pretty good. welcome. we are very happy to have a chance to talk to you today. can you tell me a little bit about your childhood? i m interested, because it seems like your independent fighting spirit seemed to emerge early, perhaps earlier than for most. yes. i spent part of my childhood in georgia, the middle part of georgia. i was born in jacksonville, florida. from age probably three to eight was spent in georgia, which is in the area of the considered middle georgia, not that far from augusta, georgia. after that, i went with my family to st. augustine, florida. that s where i came of age as a teenager. i came by my activism very early. i always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong. i don t know where i got t ....
point center for oral history. it s 1:10. we re here at the west point center for oral history studio on february 23rd, 2015, with mr. henry james thomas. hello, mr. thomas. hi. how are you doing? pretty good. welcome. thank you. we re happy to have the chance to talk to you today. can you tell me a little bit about your childhood? i m interested because it seems like your independent, fighting spirit seemed to emerge early, earlier than most. yes. i spent part of my childhood in georgia, in the middle part of georgia. i was born in jacksonville, florida, and i think from age probably 3 to 8 was spent in georgia, wadly, georgia, an area considered middle georgia. not that far from augusta, georgia. and that s where i came of age as a teenager. i came by my activism very early.. i always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong, and i don t know exactly where i got that from. and the idea of segregation and things that white people cou ....
spirit seemed to emerge early, earlier than most. yes. i spent part of my childhood in georgia, in the middle part of georgia. i was born in jacksonville, florida, and i think from age probably 3 to 8 was spent in georgia, wadly, georgia, an area considered middle georgia. not that far from augusta, georgia. and that s where i came of age as a teenager. i came by my activism very early.. i always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong, and i don t know exactly where i got that from. and the idea of segregation and things that white people could do and black people could not do, i understood very early as maybe as early as 7, 8 years old that there was something wrong with that. obviously i wasn t capable of any kind of deep philosophical thinking. it s just that why can t we go there and white folks can, and why are we poorer than white people. those were the things that as a child concerned me. i did have one incident in wattly, georgia, w ....
welcome. thank you. we re happy to have the chance to talk to you today. can you tell me a little bit about your childhood? i m interested because it seems like your independent, fighting spirit seemed to emerge early, earlier than most. yes. i spent part of my childhood in georgia, in the middle part of georgia. i was born in jacksonville, florida, and i think from age probably 3 to 8 was spent in georgia, wadly, georgia, an area considered middle georgia. not that far from augusta, georgia. and that s where i came of age as a teenager. i came by my activism very early.. i always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong, and i don t know exactly where i got that from. and the idea of segregation and things that white people could do and black people could not do, i understood very early as maybe as early as 7, 8 years old that there was something wrong with that. obviously i wasn t capable of any kind of deep philosophical thinking. it s ....