Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library
Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library
Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library
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Edrmrnd A. <strong>Bringer</strong><br />
Q: In the yard?<br />
A: In the yard. And VE had a little front stoop there with tm steps<br />
and it a s about oh, six feet square for over at the front door out there<br />
and so I cane rushing down there and sure enough there was a car parked<br />
out in front of the house, right smck up against it! Nobody could get<br />
in the house if they mted to. And so I--it scared n~ so I called the<br />
police and they c m out ~ right away and pulled up in the driveway beside<br />
the car and got in it and they said--they got in and said, "ky there's a<br />
young fellow--a young man in here!" And they asked him what his narne ms<br />
and he told them what his was and he was cane out there to see &ere<br />
Sally and Alan =re. They wren't hum neither one of than see. 'Ihey<br />
hadn' t been there and he just caw up . . . (laughter) So he ws a<br />
little bit inebriated.<br />
Q: I guess. (laughter)<br />
A: They wuldn't let him drive home. k e of the policemen took him in<br />
and the other one drove the car horne see and--kt--oh they had saw dilly<br />
friends .<br />
Q: So did you--you don't have to tell =--did you like Dad?<br />
A: k11 he ws all right, he vias just . . .<br />
Q: Kind of wild?<br />
A: k11 no, he was the only one in high school she ever vent with I<br />
think.<br />
Q: Really?<br />
A: W11, I think she wnt with another by a couple of tbes dm at the<br />
hi& school bt she went with your dad mst of the time dom there after<br />
they got: to going together. Wlt what--before she got dawn there--gee<br />
whiz there used to be a Eunch of kids around the house. In our neighborhood<br />
there ws a lot of them and they used to always be d m around our house<br />
or the little girl that lived dom the street fran us, there was another<br />
little girl that lived dawn the street £ran us that they =re at her<br />
house or atr kid's hause all the tk. Wen they got married they--&<br />
wnt to the service right amy and your mther muldn't stay here and<br />
mLk, she had to go with him dom there and . . .<br />
Q: Ske tells rre they lived in a chicken coop.<br />
A: They did.<br />
Q: A real chicken coop?<br />
A: Yes, it ws a real cnmy chicken mop. And then the next place they<br />
mned ms over at Fort Leonard kod and the house they lived in it ws<br />
nice k t it was just hotter than the devil dclwn there and it ws crmy<br />
and everybody dom there hates the sight of military people and it was<br />
rough for them down there. And then they got into a trailer, bought a<br />
<strong>Edmund</strong> <strong>Bringer</strong> <strong>Memoir</strong> - Archives/Special Collections - Norris L <strong>Brookens</strong> <strong>Library</strong> - University of Illinois at Springfield - UIS
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