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His grandfather bought a lot for their family home on Peachtree Street, now Phipps Plaza in Buckhead. Cecil’s family belonged to the Temple, a Reform congregation.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil attended Highland School, Bass High School, and Marist School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Yale University and earned a master’s degree in architecture at Harvard University. In World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater with Marine Corps as a dive bomber. After the war, he returned to Atlanta and started the architectural firm Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild and Paschal (FABRAP). Under his leadership, the firm designed Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Coca-Cola headquarters, AT\u0026amp;T Midtown Center, and Georgia Power Company Corporate Headquarters.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil was an active participant in the political and social fabric of Atlanta. Throughout his civil engagement he served as chair of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for Urban Renewal, the Black-Jewish Coalition, and the Community Council of the City of Atlanta. He was also a King Center board member.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was married to Hermoine Weil Alexander (1922-1983) until 1983 when she was killed in a car accident. After her death, he remarried Helen Eisemann (1922-2014). He and Hermoine had four children: Judith Alexander Augustine, Douglas Alexander, and Therese Alexander Milkey. Cecil Alexander died in 2013 at age 95.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eCecil focuses on his military service as a Marine Corps dive bomber in the Pacific Theater during the World War II. 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The Alexander family Atlanta roots go back to 1848 when Cecil’s grandfather, Aaron Alexander, came to Atlanta from Charleston, South Carolina, one of the first Jewish families to arrive in Atlanta. His grandfather bought a lot for their family home on Peachtree Street, now Phipps Plaza in Buckhead. Cecil’s family belonged to the Temple, a Reform congregation.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil attended Highland School, Bass High School, and Marist School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Yale University and earned a master’s degree in architecture at Harvard University. In World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater with Marine Corps as a dive bomber. After the war, he returned to Atlanta and started the architectural firm Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild and Paschal (FABRAP). Under his leadership, the firm designed Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Coca-Cola headquarters, AT\u0026amp;T Midtown Center, and Georgia Power Company Corporate Headquarters.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil was an active participant in the political and social fabric of Atlanta. Throughout his civil engagement he served as chair of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for Urban Renewal, the Black-Jewish Coalition, and the Community Council of the City of Atlanta. He was also a King Center board member.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was married to Hermoine Weil Alexander (1922-1983) until 1983 when she was killed in a car accident. After her death, he remarried Helen Eisemann (1922-2014). He and Hermoine had four children: Judith Alexander Augustine, Douglas Alexander, and Therese Alexander Milkey. Cecil Alexander died in 2013 at age 95.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCecil focuses on his military service as a Marine Corps dive bomber in the Pacific Theater during the World War II. 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III) [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cecil: I'm to talk to you?\n\nSandy: Yes, and today is November 6th, 2009. My name is Sandra Berman, and I'm interviewing Cecil Alexander, who has agreed to participate in the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project of the William Breman Heritage Museum. A mouthful, I know. I wanted to begin by just asking you a couple questions about the family's background and then getting into your own military service. But could you tell, talk a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little bit about how far back the family's roots go, when they first came to America and, well let's just start there.\n\nCecil: Well, both sides of my family, my mother and, father who, by the way, were second cousins, go way back. Abraham Alexander was the first Alexander, and he came here from London in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1760 and settled in Charleston. And he was a reader in the Sephardic synagogue there, the Beth Elohim. There's a mural up there in the entry showing him with a plaque in one hand and his prayer book in the other, and he's in his continental uniform and in the background is Francis Salvador on a rearing horse who was an officer in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Continental army. On the other side, the Moses family, my mother, they got here around, I don't know, 1660. I don't know too much about their history. My uncle's written a book that I think you have it in the library at the museum. But, it was, Abraham Alexander's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buried in the Coming Street Cemetery there, in Charleston. Moses family, probably the most prominent member of that family was a man named Raphael Moses, and he was on [General James] Longstreet's staff at the Battle of Gettysburg. And I have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a, which I'll try to find for you, a biography he wrote, a short one, in which he talks very casually about conversations with General [Robert E.] Lee and General [Major General George] Pickett and about the British observer who was here, an officer in the British army was watching the Battle of Gettysburg with him. It's very interesting. My grandfather and his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brother were both in the Confederate army, and there were about forty members of my family that were in the Confederate army. I don't know how many might have been on the other side, but there's been a long military history in the family, and my\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great-grandfather was against succession and his two boys didn't get in the army because of that, but when [Major General William Tecumseh] Sherman invaded they told their father they were going to fight, and they were in the Confederate army.\n\nSandy: Which two were the, what, who were they?\n\nCecil: My grandfather Julius M. Alexander and his brother, who's nicknamed\n\"Cooch.\" His name was Clarence. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And a, a story that's true because I've seen a letter about it since, they were in the trenches down around Savannah, and the trenches were very close together, and they were calling back and forth to\nsoldiers on both sides, and at one point my grandfather jumped up out of the\ntrenches and waved the Confederate flag and a Union ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"officer shouted to, \"Don't shoot that brave young man.\" And, and 1910, his brother who was there with him, Clarence, wrote him a letter recalling this incident, and said, \"You did it to inspire your men.\" But, he went, you know, he was, they were so close they could have killed him easily, and you wouldn't and I wouldn't be sitting here.\n\nSandy: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's right, [Sandy chuckles] that's right. That's an amazing story, one that I had not heard of. I've read a lot about the family, and I have so many records on the family from Henry Alexander, Jr., your first cousin, who sent me a lot of material-- and it's just amazing this long history and also this long history where so many other families didn't maintain their Judaism, it seems like it's always been an integral ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"part of your family's history. How do you, why do you think it's been such an important part of your own family's history?\n\nCecil: Well with me, I certainly wouldn't classify myself as a devout,\npracticing Jew, but I don't know, I guess because we know our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"history so far\nback gives a certain feeling of continuity, of pride and the fact it goes back\nas far as it does. We're in Stern's book, \"The Early Jewish Families,\" which is\nsitting over there by the way, incidentally somebody just came up with the idea that there's a family connection to Robert E. 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[Sandy is laughing]\n\nSandy: Do you, have, were there any incidents in the family's long history of,\nof Judaism being a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"problem serving in the military?\n\nCecil: No, I, I never had any of that. I, actually, I was in the ROTC at Marist\nand at Boys High and at Georgia Tech and at Yale. I've been in every branch of the service, ROTC plus the Navy and the Marines ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"except for the Coast Guard, so if we'd fought the war at Fort Sill with French 75s from World War I, I was well prepared because of the ROTC, but I, you know I, the older I get the more horrified I am with the whole idea of war. I just think there's no glory with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it at all, it's just, you know, that song from \"South Pacific,\" \"You Have to be Taught to Hate,\" I think we, we're born hating, I really do, I think it's in our\ngenes to dislike people that are not like us, and the same is true in the animal\nkingdom. 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And I was very good at it, by the way, [Cecil chuckles] there's not much of a market for it these days, huh?\n\nSandy: Well I want to go back to now, now that we've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"talked a little bit about\nthe family's history, talking about your own. I know that there's a great story,\nfirst of all, what year were you born?\n\nCecil: 1918, I'm a war baby, World War I. A young woman recently asked me when I said I was a war baby, she said, \"Was that the Spanish American War, sir?\" And I said, \"Well thank you for not asking if it was the Civil War or the War of 1812.\" But, I think she had no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"concept of when the Spanish American War was.\n\nSandy: You'd be-- [Sandy is laughing]\n\nCecil: So,\n\nSandy: --well,\n\nCecil: --she couldn't have thought I was that old.\n\nSandy: --no, no. [Sandy is still laughing] There was a great story I once heard\nand I'd love for you to recount it on the tape, that you, your name was originally,\n\nCecil: --Henry.\n\nSandy: --yes, can you talk about that for the,\n\nCecil: Yes.\n\nSandy: --for the tape.\n\nCecil: My uncle Harry [Henry A. Alexander Sr.] and somewhere in there, there's a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"picture of me sitting, sitting on his lap, and he's in his uniform. He was going to France, he was a captain, he was taking a company over, when I was born, and my father to give him some feeling of continuity named me Henry for him. Well just before he was leaving, he broke his knee in a training, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and didn't go, and then after the War, he was a lawyer and he put an ad in the paper, he needed someone to translate Russian, and there was a beautiful young woman [Manya Klonitzky or Marian Kline] here from Lithuania, and she answered it. She was studying dentistry in the 1920s which still was amazing to me. 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And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I really was upset by it. I can still remember it, at five you're just beginning to know who the, who you are and then have this happen. I kidded, and it wasn't until I was kidding Henry [Cecil is chuckling], I, I told him that I didn't mind losing my name as much as I did the inheritance. 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And\nMarsha was beautiful and bright, and my mother who'd been a schoolteacher in Montgomery taught her to speak English by, you know, table, glass, so forth. Mother didn't know any Russian. 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He didn't mention his Atlanta connections which the last time he was here, fifteen years\nago he did. They were saying you, the kids were just screaming and yelling at\nhim, you know, \"You come back Leonard, you come back.\" He said, \"I certainly will, my grandfather's buried here, and I have cousins here.\" That was fifteen years ago, so the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"last time, I hear he didn't mention Atlanta at all.\n\nSandy: That's very interesting. I know that Henry's wife was indeed very\nbeautiful. I mean I've seen pictures of her.\n\nCecil: Yeah.\n\nSandy: Yeah. So you grew up in this house being one of the, you know, old\nAtlanta families. 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We never put a wreath out front, but my father told my sister, he said, \"You know, we're Jewish, and when Cecil stops believing in Santa Claus, there goes Christmas, forget it.\" So there was a real conspiracy to keep me believing, and one of my Protestant friends said, \"Oh, you know you're stupid. your parents lied to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you, there's no Santa Claus,\" and I said, \"Well look, you believe in Jesus and I don't. I believe in Santa Claus and you don't. Let's leave it at that.\" [Sandy laughs] My parents could hardly keep a straight face when I told them that so that's a--\n\nSandy: And did you go to public school?\n\nCecil: Yeah, I went to Highland School. The building's still there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on, off of\nHighland Avenue on North Avenue. It's a condo naturally. And then I went to\n[William A.] Bass [Junior High School] and my sister preceded me. My sister was a brilliant student.\n\nSandy: What was her name?\n\nCecil: Charlotte. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of the things though that was disturbing was that catechism was taught, I'd have forgotten how often, every week, and, those of us who weren't Catholic were supposed to sit there and study. 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[Cecil chuckles and Sandy is laughing] Now Bert, he, he belonged there, you know, his name was Jacobson, I guess you know all about him, but he was there when I was there and, but I think it's really interesting that, that they must pick two Jews to--\n\nSandy: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's a great story.\n\nCecil: Yeah.\n\nSandy: So where were you when, so how, what year was it when you got to Georgia Tech?\n\nCecil: It was 1936.\n\nSandy: Did you as a young person already kind of hear rumblings about what was going on in Europe?\n\nCecil: Yeah, but not really, the, the, the most ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"critical thing that happened, I\nwas at MIT after I graduated from Yale working on my master's in architecture, and I worked in the summer for Carmen Jacobs Architects in New York, and Bob Jacobs who was my roommate's brother-in-law, Yale roommate, said, \"I'll give you time off to go and learn to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fly out at Roosevelt Field. The president has this program, Civilian Pilot Training, he's trying to get a backlog,\" and he said, \"I want you to, I want you to learn to fly because I want you to protect my ass because there's a war coming.\" And he said, \"I'll give you time off,\" and I said, well that's mighty generous Bob, you aren't paying me a thing.\" [Sandy and Cecil are both laughing] And, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but, that I would be--\n\nSandy: How old were you then?\n\nCecil: I was about twenty-two, I guess. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Everyone thought that they would invade, they would go south for oil, and the attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise.\n\nSandy: How would you describe the, the mood of the county before Pearl was\nbombed? 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You know Churchill said that, \"Give us the arms and we'll finish the job.\" There's a poem, \"Say not the struggle naught availeth\" and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Churchill quoted the last stanza. \"And not by\neastern windows only, when daylight comes, comes in the light, and prompt the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward look, the land is bright.\" And after the election when Willkie was beaten, I voted for him by the way, it was my first election, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Roosevelt sent him over to meet with a king and with Churchill and he, he brought a Longfellow's poem, \"About to sail on a ship of state, sail on the union strong and great, humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes, his hanging breath ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was on thy faith.\" And Churchill replied to that with, on this business about \"You give us the arms and we'll finish the job.\" It was an exciting time. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But Hitler by declaring war just got us into it. And of course his other big mistake was invading Russia.\n\nSandy: Right, exactly, two fronts.\n\nCecil: Yep.\n\nSandy: Bad move.\n\nCecil: Yep.\n\nSandy: What about in your own home, what were the conversations like about the war, were your parents, they must have been nervous with you entering the military?\n\nCecil: Well my mother died in 1938. 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I didn't have a heck of a lot of trouble except at one point because I was already a pilot, and I had to learn the Navy way, but I was at home in the air, and that, that made a lot of\ndifference to be at ease, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, in three dimensions. But I went through that program and then I, I flew as a co-pilot three months with Penn Central Airlines out of, out of Washington, and we were flying cargo, or we were flying the DC-3s. 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But that's when I decided, any career that I was either bored to death or scared to death wasn't a very good career so... One funny thing, we were flying into Miami, and the controller there was a woman and Jimmy didn't approve of that, he thought that should be a man's job. 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So then, then after...\n\nCecil: Incidentally, women make fine pilots. And one of the earliest pilots here\nin Atlanta was a woman named Evelyn Greenblatt.\n\nSandy: Evelyn Greenblatt.\n\nCecil: Yep.\n\nSandy: Howren?\n\nCecil: Yep.\n\nSandy: Yes, I, I know her niece well, Beth Sugarman.\n\nCecil: Oh yeah.\n\nSandy: Yeah, so we have all of her papers as well. 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Anyway, the\nbuilding was overdesigned because the engineers had never done a building that tall, so they just overdesigned it, and it's probably the strongest high-rise\nbuilding in the world. But the reason it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't collapse like the World Trade\nCenter is because it's so strong, the steel. Anyway, I went out to the West\nCoast and, and at Fort Worth, I roomed with a Marine [Corps] captain; I was a\nsecond lieutenant then. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And when I saw him out there in San Diego, he said, \"I'm taking a transport squadron out to Guadalcanal, and I'd like to have you with me. But I know you want to go into medium bombers, and they're forming a group up in Santa Barbara and I can get you in that.\" So I said, \"Well I sure would like to be with you, but yeah, how about,\" and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he did get me assigned to that. And when I realized I was going to be probably another six months in the states, I called Hermi [Hermione Weil Alexander], and I said, \"Let's get married.\" [Cecil chuckles] And we did.\n\nSandy: What was Hermi's last name?\n\nCecil: Weil. She was from New Orleans. And she was a cousin of my\nbrother-in-law, Roman Weil from Montgomery. 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Are you familiar ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with atolls, what--.?\n\nSandy: Mmhm, yeah.\n\nCecil: They're really beautiful remnants of old, you know, of volcanic islands.\nBut the sixty missions, that was a lot of dive-bombing missions, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/transcript/21012/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but we got,\nwe'd gotten, it was still dangerous and we'd gotten bored to death and our\nmorale was way down from being in the back waters, and at one point we were alerted to go to Guam and it, it got called off. 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There’s a mural up there in the entry showing him with a plaque in one hand and his prayer book in the other, and he’s in his continental uniform and in the background is Francis Salvador on a rearing horse who was an officer in the Continental army. On the other side, the Moses family, my mother, they got here around, I don’t know, 1660. 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And I wasn’t particularly conscious of being different from my Christian friends. One of the stories was that I believed in Santa Claus, we had Christmas and had trees. We never put a wreath out front, but my father told my sister, he said, “You know, we’re Jewish, and when Cecil stops believing in Santa Claus, there goes Christmas, forget it.”","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096#t=568.0,985.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32325/file/101096/index/47400/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta, Ga.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cecil A. Alexander Jr.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cecil A. 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This was 1941 the early, I guess, the winter of ’41. And the, the man, who spoke fluent English, was telling all of what’s going on in Germany with the treatment of the Jews. And from that point on, I wasn’t interested in academics at all. 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