Well, it had its effect. There were students that were coming from homes that were pretty hard up. And the effect it had that we had a lot of students in school that we normally wouldn't have had you see.

Some of the kids on the- in the area were uh- oh I remember one family- two families in particular that were really, pretty hard up, 'cause they 're- no body working, you-know, they were getting the thing. Even Dad when he had the- had this house built, of course we were living in the new one, he was renting the other one.

And I know when I joined the Air-Force, fortunately it was getting to the point that they 're getting a little hard-up for air crew. At one time, you had to have your senior-matric, or high-school graduation, to go be a pilot or navigator.

Right? I don 't understand it. And you think of all the people that are hard up, are starving to death, and you see these people wasting their money like that, and you- just makes me sick. And I think about all these tsunami victims that could use that money, you-know?

But ah oh well ah ah we- we weren't that hard up for food by th-- by that time of course. We'd be- be back a bit by then.

Well, it was a lot of hard up days. Money wasn't too plentiful. You made due with what you had, ah if there was meat to be eat, it was generally a deer. Even though it was out of season.