My War Experiences:

Gerson: After I left here, I went back to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. I was with the 92nd Infantry Division, Cannon Company, 365th Infantry. We went to Virginia to catch a boat to go to Italy. All of the 92nd went to Italy.

Daisy: After the honeymoon [2], he left to go, and that was in July of 1944. We stayed together five days, and then he was gone until December of 1945 - after the war was over.

Gerson: I guess you would say it was heartbreaking to have experienced what was experienced in the Mediterranean theater [3] and then come back to the same segregation, the same problems that we left, [to] come back to Charlotte and go to the Union bus terminal [4], get off the bus, and go to the section that was for blacks and have to wait. You could only catch a cab that only blacks could ride in. And you often asked yourself  the question, “Is this really what I fought for? [5] Is this really what I took a chance for? Is this really what I said that I was fighting for, the American way of life [6]?”