january 1st 1930. if there was a draft, it would have me as later year. it was so prevent me from going to war but i ended up. tell me about your family. beautiful family, wonderful neighborhood. primarily italian. some jewish but primarily italian. we had lots of activity because of the abundance of males. a lot of sports were involved. no baseball. no baseball fields. how many siblings? two more. an older brother. they are both deceased. all boys? yeah. what school did you go to in new york city? ps 112 was my grammar school. ps 112? yeah. your grammar school. in brooklyn. junior high school was shallow junior high school from the 9th to the 12th grade. no, the junior high school was the 10th to the 12th. what s what s the name of it? shallow was the junior high school and then texile. it was a school sponsored by some textile guy. part of the curriculum is you had to take one season, one semester of textile. kind of internship? right. when
if memory serves me correctly, my mom kept the three or four letters that she got from me and i read those many times after i came home. yes, she got them. i got three or four letters from home. my sister wrote to me every three or four days. we didn t get all the mail that was sent to us. i know that for sure because my family members a lot of them wrote letters to me but i didn t get that many. i got a few. you still keep the letter? when did your family and parents know that you are in the camp? as you may know we were carried as mia for a long time. they had no confirmation of my status until about august or september of 51. there was an exchange of information between the chinese and our government. they did have large number of pows. i don t know when this information was passed or when either side honored what the other side said. as far as the status of the troops, i don t know. i believe that my mom and dad got word that we were no longer mia that we were pow.
christmas eve? yeah. it s an interesting story that goes with that. i was delivered by a midwife and the midwife of my mother conspired instead of registering me december 249th they did in january 1st 1930. if there was a draft, it would have me as later year. it was so prevent me from going to war but i ended up. tell me about your family. beautiful family, wonderful neighborhood. primarily italian. some jewish but primarily italian. we had lots of activity because of the abundance of males. a lot of sports were involved. no baseball. no baseball fields. how many siblings? two more. an older brother. they are both deceased. all boys? yeah. what school did you go to in new york city? ps 112 was my grammar school. ps 112? yeah. your grammar school. in brooklyn. junior high school was shallow junior high school from the 9th to the 12th grade. no, the junior high school was the 10th to the 12th. what s what s the name of it? shallow was the junior
wonderful neighborhood. primarily italian. with some jewish but primarily italian. large families. we had lots of activity because of the abundance of males. all kinds of sports were involved. softball, basketball, touch football. no baseball. no baseball fields. professor han: how many siblings? mr. conte: two more. an older brother. they are both deceased. professor han: all boys? mr. conte: yeah. professor han: what school did you go to in new york city? mr. conte: ps 112 was my grammar school. professor han: ps 112? mr. conte: yeah. professor han: your grammar school. mr. conte: in brooklyn. junior high school was shallow junior high school from the 9th to the 12th grade. no, the junior high school was seventh until ninth. and high school was the 10th to the 12th. professor han: what s the name of it? textile what s the name of it? mr. conte: shallow was the junior high school and then the high school was hi. it was a school sponsored by some industrial, textile guy. part