He invited me over next day and I started my interview. I asked him how he survived Katrina and he told me "If you can survive Mardi gras, you can survive anything. " We chuckled as we started the interview. I started my interview asking a little about his background. He told me he was born and raised in New Orleans and lived all his life in River Ridge subdivision of New Orleans. He told me he doesn't remember much of his teen years. He told me he attended Riverdale High School in New Orleans where he met his wife. She walked into his math class late on the first day of his junior year and sat next to him. He said they started talking and he asked her to be his girlfriend at the beginning of senior year and he took her prom, where they realized they wanted to spend their life together. .

             He told me after he finished high school, they both decided to attended Louisiana state university where he studied business. He told me when he was in sophomore in college he was drafted into the military to serve in the Vietnam War. I asked him more about how he was drafted and which branch he served in. He told me he was recruited in to the army. I asked him why you didn't say no to the draft. He replied "I had no choice. One day I woke up with a letter in the mail telling me to either go to the service or spend 20 years in prison. I was shocked when he said this. I asked him how his life changed after he got the mail. He told me "I just said good bye to my parents and brothers. But the hardest good bye was saying good bye to my wife (girlfriend at that time). ".

             Then I asked him the only thing that came to my mind. What was boot camp like? "Terrible. They woke up at five thirty in the morning made you do so many exercises. You weren't allowed to walk anywhere, you had to run. Not to mention the mean sergeants. "I asked him what his job was during the war. He told me they trained him to be Morse Code Operator but, all I had to do at that time was repair and install all types of radios.