Okay.
Okay, so introduce yourself, name and age.
My name's William Vacious Vafakos. My real name is Vacious. And how old are you?
90 years old.
Okay. And where are you born?
I was going in Brooklyn, New York, on Columbus Day 1927 or October 12.
So what was it like growing up in Brooklyn?
It was fun. It was really fun because young people don't know how hard their parents are working for them.
So did you face any difficulties growing up there?
No, the only difficulty I had was when I started school, I couldn't speak english not to... well, I couldn't read much either.
Because you came from the immigrant parents?
Because I learned Greek, to speak Greek only in the house.
Did you enjoy having your parents teach you Greek and was it hard having your parents be integrated?
It was just very normal, no more normal and natural.
So later in life, I know that you enlisted in world war ii. So how did you get involved in... why did you want to be involved? Well, when the war started in United States, that was in december 7. 1941. At that time, I was 14 years old, and everybody that I knew was, of course, pro American wanted to us to be in the water win. And there were a lot of a lot of people who were drafted into the army. And then we started to see the gold stars in the banners and the windows, and those gold stars …show more content…
So I came back to new York and worked at an armor for a while for instrument company first. Then I even went to Morgan fola, another company, and then I was going to school, continuing my studies to of master's degree, and I got my master's degree, and then he thought I should get continue going. And my mother kept asking when am I gonna be finished going to school? I went and I went, the continued to, my studies for a phd. I got the phd and they kept me on as a professor, doing research, and
Okay, so introduce yourself, name and age.
My name's William Vacious Vafakos. My real name is Vacious. And how old are you?
90 years old.
Okay. And where are you born?
I was going in Brooklyn, New York, on Columbus Day 1927 or October 12.
So what was it like growing up in Brooklyn?
It was fun. It was really fun because young people don't know how hard their parents are working for them.
So did you face any difficulties growing up there?
No, the only difficulty I had was when I started school, I couldn't speak english not to... well, I couldn't read much either.
Because you came from the immigrant parents?
Because I learned Greek, to speak Greek only in the house.
Did you enjoy having your parents teach you Greek and was it hard having your parents be integrated?
It was just very normal, no more normal and natural.
So later in life, I know that you enlisted in world war ii. So how did you get involved in... why did you want to be involved? Well, when the war started in United States, that was in december 7. 1941. At that time, I was 14 years old, and everybody that I knew was, of course, pro American wanted to us to be in the water win. And there were a lot of a lot of people who were drafted into the army. And then we started to see the gold stars in the banners and the windows, and those gold stars …show more content…
So I came back to new York and worked at an armor for a while for instrument company first. Then I even went to Morgan fola, another company, and then I was going to school, continuing my studies to of master's degree, and I got my master's degree, and then he thought I should get continue going. And my mother kept asking when am I gonna be finished going to school? I went and I went, the continued to, my studies for a phd. I got the phd and they kept me on as a professor, doing research, and