James Siragusa and Helen Siragusa

Jim (J) asks Helen (H) what it was like living in the great depression and WWII. They touch on H's mothers life.

J asks H why she enlisted in the military as a nurse. She worked at a paraplegic and quadriplegic nursery and remembers old patients (75 years later, she is able to draw a diagram of each bed and remembers each patient). H tells a story of one patient telling her what her nickname was, and how a paraplegic died.

H talks about the passing of her fiancee at the time and how it affected her.

H talks about her own sickness while in the Navy, and how a doctor told her she would live only 20 more years (she is now one month away from 100, with 8 kids).

H gives advice to kids and talks about being a mother.

H tells the story of how she met Jim's father.