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Ed Metzler:
Mr. Bible:
Ed Metzler:
Mr. Bible:
was with him who had come from another island and didn't have anything. I
says, "Well, I can send you without anything, they may stop you at the next
time," but he says, "That'll be alright, that's what I'm prepared to do." We
stayed there a week or two, maybe longer than that, and all ... most people
coming back to the States had to go through there, many of them did. We had
many people going back to the States.
Right.
One day the Colonel in charge of those people sent out some ... some notice of
(unintelligible). Well, he ... oh, let's see what it was, a group of people was
coming in at ten o'clock that night and they would get dinner there at that place.
Well, they got there at ten o'clock, but there's no dinner for them, and so they
had to fix up a ... (unintelligible) to give to them in tin foil or whatever it was.
So, the next morning you can imagine how much tin foil was all over our place
where those people from the infantry had not gotten their dinner. And the
Colonel was running around there; he's ... now what was wrong with him, I
don't know. He should have known better, but he did not try to get anybody
'cause he had three or four thousand people he could put on cleaning up the
yard with that tin foil, but he didn't do anything about it. Sometime pretty soon
there was a ... Chief came up ... I don't remember whether it was General in the
jeep or not, but there [were] Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels and one, at least one
Lieutenant Colonel. They got in (unintelligible) talking to that General that
didn't clean up the place. Now when they got through talking to him, he went
down the line, he got enough people out there to clean up the place.
Uhm!
That was completely his fault because he had three or four thousand GIs there
that was doing nothing. It got cleaned up. Then one day when I was coming
back to the States, I went through myself (chuckles); I had to go through that
and another Lieutenant. So, I was standing there talking and another Lieutenant
came up to me and started talking to me. I says, "Well, that's not me," I says,
"processed you yesterday." He says, "Oh, that's right, I remembered seeing you
and I ... putting you some other place." So, wasn't long I got on a train, went
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