Godwin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So, it's like... There's too much emotional...
of feelings involved with those people.
Well, no, no.
Well, see, people don't realize that about your grandfathers and grandmothers.
Hey, my mama, my mama...
There was two things you didn't do with mama.
Lie to her, okay, or steal something.
You was in a murder class if you'd done either one of them.
The murder class.
This was a woman that hitchhiked from Louisiana to L.A.
to be with her husband when he joined the Navy to go to war.
Whoa, time out.
Yeah.
And look, all she would do is anybody in uniform, she would put her arm under his arm and said, hey, till we get off of this bus, I'm your wife.
And she made it all the way to Los Angeles.
And went all the way to Los Angeles and just showed up on the naval base.
Okay.
And they said, well, who are you?
Hey, I'm Merrick Robertson.
My husband is here, and I've come to be with him before he goes off to war.