Richard Arthur Christopher Hilton

0:00Richard author christopher hilton i was

0:03born in Long Island New York in a town

0:06called Roslyn may second 1933 my

0:13after I came back from the war I had a

0:18car accident I’m blind since 1955

0:22somehow I did good in the mathematical

0:27they told me they could use me in the in

0:32the missile command missile command yes

0:36ok so you were in the Army right yes

0:40yeah when did you join ah alright she uh

0:44sure i was in the army but it was also

0:49an Air Force Base in 1952 were 1952 I

0:53was going on 50 yeah 53 at this time and

1:00age although was the Korean War Russia

1:04was back in North Korea yeah well we

1:08were back from South Korea and Russia

1:12started to make missiles mm-hmm and we

1:18could we could not allow a Russia to get

1:21ahead of us in the missile department

1:23mm-hmm ah so uh we decided to make

1:31missiles ourselves and because i have a

1:34good math background mm-hmm they

1:38decided I’d be better off working

1:42working with the missiles apart and most

1:49my work was done in Albuquerque but ah

1:57along with done up in white sands when I

2:00went to Korea a forward to Korea yes

2:04Gimple yes at that point in time and

2:10this was undercover right ah what can

2:14you tell me though regarding our supply

2:16lines uh-huh you didn’t do any mess

2:20mathematical jobs there did that as well

2:23i an’t i’m sure the entire peninsula was

2:31somewhat of an enemy not a bad thing

2:37about it sure was mm-hmm we couldn’t

2:42attack them mm-hmm because they would

2:46retreat up up north in two hours called

2:54mainland China mm-hmm we weren’t allowed

2:59to go across the border were you wounded

3:02there in Korea ah no back home mmm must

3:09be very hard for you to live without

3:13eyesight it is quite hard but but these

3:18people in a home here uh-huh I probably

3:23are very very helpful and they they do

3:30all that is possible to make it convenient for

3:34you mm-hmm and luckily i do have ear if

3:42you lost your sense to smell and you

3:46don’t have eye site but you still be

3:49very thankful huh I’m a good sir I have

3:53a good memory of it mmm when I could

3:59smell and when when I couldn’t know I

4:02remember mother’s blueberry pies and

4:05mothers apple and the smell of Barbara

4:09oh maybe your bass track was IRA ah so

4:16you remember the smell even though you

4:18cannot smell what I remember most mama

4:22she made someone call a pineapple

4:24upside-down cake and it was I had my

4:31nose in front what which had a little

4:33bigger a pineapple sent wait wait Sarah

4:40is a little sharp but uh also has brown

4:47sugar and which was just a sweet

4:52Mountain my favorite smell of all time

4:55uh-huh and I can remember this like oh I

4:58was yesterday what the blue or purple

5:06lilac flower that had a smell and stuff

5:10just just couldn’t be beat III swear I

5:14always won in in them I upon it that

5:22smell in there some way I could take

5:24this bottle make it into a cake or

5:26something like that you can eat it is it

5:29it’s yes Bell so so good when I lost my

5:34sight I also lost my sense of smell

5:38uh-huh now mind you I was in the

5:40hospital for five and a half years

5:42uh-huh i broke my right wrist my right

5:45shoulder five ribs punctured lung chikni

5:48fracture I’m down to three medical books

5:52is a miracle for living no ah but mainly

5:57I had a lady who I was engaged to oh and

6:02we had a home where we were going to

6:06live uh-huh and she was with me I went I

6:11went in the car with me when I truck

6:14when the author bruh and she didn’t make

6:18it can’t be done

6:23and again you learn to live with what

6:34you don’t have as as well as you learn

6:37to live with what with what you have hmm

6:40you also learn to live with what you

6:42don’t have thank God for these people in

6:45this home this home itself and and

6:50people in like or like yourself for

6:54instance right that are going around

6:59trying to make the best life force I’m

7:04believe in God and God told me that

7:14although I although my parents are dead

7:19and Peggy’s deadener most my other

7:25friends that we will all meet again

7:29someday and I believe it and I’m just

7:36waiting for that happening trusting God

7:40for God Himself will put your own on

7:46make things right for you again though

7:49you don’t you don’t smell it but still

7:54you can imagine the smells that you used

7:58have and that makes you Pleasant and

8:05joyful absolutely I love music uh-huh I

8:11lower blah blah I and I find talk very

8:20often about trying to put it down in in

8:24the words of a song when I got old

8:28me and I got over sherry belong never

8:36get over you well keep try to find just

8:43a little peace of mind but I’ll never

8:48get over you each time I find somebody

8:56new oh I want her to be like you and she

9:03won’t ever do purchase one of you and

9:10our lives had to park I’ll keep you here

9:15deep in my heart well and I thank you

9:31there’s so much to have you back I know

9:36so many song sure that haha if I start

9:41singing 1 i’ll pick up the lyric i have

9:46a tune of another I grew up in era of

9:52the 50s yo answer they had the greatest

9:59singers songwriters of any error what

10:07could be I asked for singers they had

10:15been people like Bing Crosby yeah Frank

10:19Sinatra yes Perry Como uh-huh Tony

10:24Bennett yes Eddie Arnold mm-hmm ah the

10:30Andrew sisters hmm my assistants

10:37the everly brothers and and which other

10:42hilton and one of my all-time fave

10:46percentage was a man I never Nat King

10:51Cole were you able to write back to your

10:55family when you were in Korea I was able

10:58to but I don’t know as I did I am I sure

11:08because uh well when I was over there

11:16was always a guest workers what was

11:19gonna happen to us to you tomorrow or

11:23the next day here don’t worry I so uh

11:30and I didn’t know why the world itself

11:41was in such a term well yep and as you

11:46remember this Russia itself was trying

11:56to turn most of the company world

11:59communistic uh-huh and that that better

12:05dancer supposedly why there’s a North

12:09Korea which is communist and there’s a

12:13South Korea was his nationalist ah the

12:21same goes for a Red China India and

12:24Nigeria mm-hmm and then go I I as Russia

12:30turned Cuba and the kingdom mom are as

12:38much of the world nationalistic as we

12:41could you know which in truth we’re

12:47still trying to do

12:49I just don’t see any other way to go and

12:56you want to keep America safe and sound

13:02I think I’d we’ve been doing it ah but

13:14every time you turn around there’s

13:16another country yah uh it was uh oh I

13:22trying to build another bomb of this way

13:26or another missile endure basically why

13:30we don’t sob was like I not to protect

13:37her not to invade other countries but to

13:40protect our own country really no oh no

13:44more to say about you see I’m sorry they

13:50were when I got back and I had a car

13:52action I got hitting a head pretty badly

13:54a lot of my memories I there anymore

14:01okay and sir the interview you did give

14:10it a good day Mia you’re a very pleasant

14:14land I thank you very much by caring

14:20thank you