Did I mention that I was born in Beaumont, at the Hotel Dieu, in 1943? Daddy was a welder at the shipyard in Beaumont, but he joined the Navy soon after I was born and went overseas, serving in the Pacific until 1945.
I wonder if that hospital still exists. In many cities in the US, Hotel Dieu was the first hospital built. The original Hotel Dieu was in Paris and still exists there. Hotel Dieu was founded in the 600's AD, has burned to the ground several times, and the present one was built in the 1800's, and though very old, it is a completely modernized hospital.
