And that was pretty much it until I went to Pace College in New York City. The revolutionary war, the civil war particularly produced so many outstanding stories of human emotion and leadership challenges which is fascinating, that people could function in the kinds of situations that I read about in the books. I was always interested in the history of our country, and a lot of the presidents and the heroes of our country throughout its history. And as far as sports were concerned, I was never that good to make any of the school teams, but we always played sandlot baseball and football and basketball in different areas of the city. And then I went to Dewer Clinton High School in New York, and while I'm in high school, I got involved with American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, and I was in that for about six or seven years before I came into the Marine Corps. John Parochial School in, that was in the Bronx cause we're out on the borderline of the Bronx.
Well over time, the city decided to incorporate that in the Bronx and keep Manhattan an island without an island a little piece. They re-routed the Harlem River Barge Canal, or created a Harlem River Barge Canal because the junction with the Hudson River was not adequate for shipping, I guess, so when they did that, they had to lop off the northern tip of the island, and I happened to live in that northern tip. It is now part of the Bronx, it's a little tip of Northern end of the island. Unidentified interviewer:Īctually it was part of Manhattan.
I was born and raised in New York City until the age of twenty-one when I joined the Marine Corps and left the city, heading south to Quantico. I retired in nineteen sixty-five, enlisted in nineteen fifty-five. Lee, United States Marine Corps, retired. Home » Text Transcript Interview with Howard V.