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I think this was around the time I was in the sixth or seventh grade or something.  Anyhow, while we were sitting there in the classroom, the nun had me get up.   I used to be an altar boy, and we had to speak our prayers in Latin.  She was...

The war was over by the time I got there.  Since I could speak the Polish language fluently and could read and write it, I did get to work as an interpreter for a while.  During the Nuremberg trials, for instance, when they had somebody testify at the trials who was...

My name is Bernie Jackson.  I was born May 20th of 1928.  I'm talking about my five brothers.  They were the big heroes. I was talking with my brother-in-law, who is 91 years old now.  We were talking at the kitchen table at my brother's house. He was on his way...

Who was the first person to be nominated to be president of the United States?  George Washington didn't really want it. This person spent quite a bit of time at Thomas Jefferson's house before that, when they were setting up the Government. (From an observer:  "Was this person Polish?") He saved...

We were all subject to re-call for 20 years.  So when I got out in 1949, the Korean war started.  So they re-called me and gave me three days to report to active duty to Fort Knox, Kentucky.  And I didn't do it.  What I did, I went and joined the...

My younger kid sister, she happened to go to nursing school here in Columbus.  My wife was in the same nursing class, and my brother's wife was in the same grade at the old St. Francis Hospital here in town.  So when I was in the army I would call my...

  When I was in the Navy and we'd be out to sea, once a week we'd have boxing matches.  And the other week we'd have wrestling matches.  It was for entertainment to keep the troops entertained when we were out to sea.  We'd be out six to eight months at...