Mr. Jenner. Did you see your brother at any time thereafter?
Mr. Pic. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. Jenner. Was there an occasion in Thanksgiving 1962 when you saw him?
Mr. Pic. Yes, sir; I can get to that. There are things happened prior to that.
Mr. Jenner. You did see him——
Mr. Pic. No, sir; I did not see him. I seen my mother.
Mr. Jenner. I see. All right; go ahead.
Mr. Pic. I returned from Portsmouth, Va., in April 1954, sir; and took up residency at 80 St. Marks Place, Staten Island, N.Y. We returned really to 325 East 92d Street, stayed there a matter of a couple of days until I found us a place to live in Staten Island and then my wife and I moved over to Staten Island leaving my mother-in-law in the apartment, being I felt because my wife had six brothers and sisters that they could worry about her. I didn't see that it was my responsibility much longer. My wife was the youngest child, and we lived there almost 2 years.
I was then assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Halfmoon, which is a weather vessel, and this is where I am in and out for 6-, 7-week periods at a time. It was during this time that she wrote me at the base, my mother, and informed me that they were back in New Orleans, and you have the letters referring to this, sir.
It was either sometime in the fall of 1955 or the winter of 1956 that my mother called me from New Orleans.