This interview is there the Veterans History Project and conducted by the kenan research center. I was born three weeks before Pearl Harbor and i did not meet my father until the end of 1945 when he came home from service. He and five of his brothers wore the uniform in World War ii and four of my mothers brothers. So we were heavily invested in that war, and my earliest memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. You know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples, they had maybe one or two kids. The war broke out and then the father is gone and hes gone mostly for the duration of the war. So we my mother and i lived between her Mothers House and the little town of mar kate, texas, and his Mothers House in the little town of franklin, texas, which was 28 miles away. We would ride the bus between those two. My mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place and we moved to
This interview is there the Veterans History Project and conducted by the kenan research center. I was born three weeks before Pearl Harbor and i did not meet my father until the end of 1945 when he came home from service. He and five of his brothers wore the uniform in World War ii and four of my mothers brothers. So we were heavily invested in that war, and my earliest memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. You know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples, they had maybe one or two kids. The war broke out and then the father is gone and hes gone mostly for the duration of the war. So we my mother and i lived between her Mothers House and the little town of mar kate, texas, and his Mothers House in the little town of franklin, texas, which was 28 miles away. We would ride the bus between those two. My mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place and we moved to
Memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. You know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples, they had maybe one or two kids. The war broke out and then the father is gone and hes gone mostly for the duration of the war. So we my mother and i lived between her Mothers House and the little town of mar kate, texas, and his Mothers House in the little town of franklin, texas, which was 28 miles away. We would ride the bus between those two. My mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place and we moved to the other. I can remember a little alligator embossed cardboard suitcase, we would pack all our belongings in and head down the road. Those were the years of World War ii and i have a memory of Scrap Metal collections and saving bacon grease, which i have no idea what they did, something to do with ammunition. You know, i remember my mother they only gave you the Ration B
He and five of his brothers wore the uniform in World War ii, and four of my mothers brothers. So we were heavily invested in that war. And my earliest memories are of living in houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph boy. You know, they were all of these uncles and aunts were young couples. They had maybe one or two kids. The war broke out. And then the father is gone. And hes gone mostly for the duration of the war. So we my mother and i lived between her Mothers House in a little town in texas and his Mothers House in franklin texas, which was 28 miles away. And we would ride the bus between those two. My mother was pretty good at figuring out when we had worn out our welcome in one place, and wed move to the other. Had a little i can remember a little alligator embossed Cardboard Suit Case we would back all our belongings in and head down the road. Those were the years of World War ii. And i have a memory of Scrap Metal collections and saving bacon
lyle lovett, welcome. - evan, thanks for having me. - nice to be back with you. - congratulations on 16 years of the show! - well, thanks very much. can t believe it, time goes fast. - it was first season that we first spoke. - yeah, that s right, you came back again one more time, and now here you are again, so see you in eight years. that s how that goes, i think, right? or something like that. - yeah. so we re sitting here today against the backdrop of this awful weather in houston, flooding. a community that you know well, care enormously about. you were born in memorial hospital, right, in houston? - in methodist hospital. - methodist hospital, pardon me, in houston, and you grew up in houston and around houston, and you still live in the - still live here, still live right where i grew up. yeah, i know it s, i ve been keeping an eye on the, and been on the phone all day back home. lots of folks are underwater, where we are in north harris county, we re on high enough g