Oral History Interview with Floyd R. Thomas, February 18, 2009 Page: 15
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came back and said this is a tie. All right, we'll make a change in our decision. It's a tie. That is
some of the last things I remember at the Peacock Military Academy. It was a wonderful place.
After the 2nd year, I was 6 foot 3 probably with 175 pounds, 180, and the boys from New York;
we still were living in the same room. The boys from New York got their lesson, each and every
one of them, one day at a time. One at a time, one place at a time. I'd meet one out at the
basketball court or I'd meet on here, meet one there or in formation because I wasn't worried
about getting demerits anymore cause I was always working in the Armory. So I did what I
pleased about getting even with them. I remember this back again a little bit. One day they got
me down, they were pounding my chest with their knuckles and the next day I had a half inch
round, maybe an inch round bruise with scabs on it. That's exactly what happened. So one
incident I remember very distinctly was we were in formation, we were told to fall out with
who we all had our rifles with us. One of the boys sitting in the front and I used the butt of the
rifle to get him about the middle of his back and down he went. And I think I got 10 tours for
that. But I worked them off very fast. But anyway those guys got...when they'd come in at
night, they'd all come in the room together in a group because they knew they would be
attacked if there wasn't a group. They got to where they left me alone completely, believe it or
not. But the 3rd year in there, like I say, I was up to I think 185, 180, something like that and 6
foot 4 or 6 foot 5. I can't remember the height. But I know I was taller than everyone around
because those days everybody was a shrimp. Now a days I've got to look up at ninety percent
of the people I walk by. Seems like people are growing up faster than I was. I was 14 years old
when I entered Peacock Military Academy and I completed 3 years of school; 9th, 10th, and 11th
grade at Peacock. When I was at Peacock in San Antonio my sister, Joy, was hit and killed while15
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Misenhimer, Richard & Thomas, Floyd R. Oral History Interview with Floyd R. Thomas, February 18, 2009, text, February 18, 2009; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193889/m1/15/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.