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Ed Metzler:
Mr. Bible:
Ed Metzler:
Mr. Bible:
Ed Metzler:
Mr. Bible:
Ed Metzler:
Mr. Bible:
(Chuckles).
Well, he left to go down there to chew them out. While he was gone, and I had
made him a very good place ... way I was laying in the ... in the bed where my
foot was, I got down and short sheeted his bed again. I climbed back up there
and got back in bed exactly like I was before. He ... he came in and started to
go to bed that is short sheeted and he just let out some word, and then
(unintelligible) got in bed and went to sleep, and why I was down there, I don't
know, but I was on the same floor as my room. Let's see, oh, let me see ... oh,
we were in a ship in Florida, not Florida; its ... its ... no, let's see, yeah,
(unintelligible) but we ... place and they put a ... they moved us up to a place ...
supposed to leave there for a ... place ... sorry, but the things had changed. If it
rained in the Philippines and we couldn't make the landing there, so they just
held us there and we were in a ... what's the unit that we ... there, let's see, had
... this is Florida, and we stayed there. And we had a jeep that was loaded down
on the ... in the middle ... it had a candy, case of candy in the floorboard. On top
of it was case of Australian candy; on top of that was (unintelligible) and it was
on deck for about ten days, I guess. That (unintelligible) went in about thirty
minutes. That box of Australia ... Australian candy was there two weeks later.
Uhm.
It was a whole lot like our hard candy.
Yeah.
Clear hard candy, but it was whole lot harder.
A lot harder than hard (chuckles).
Yeah, and those people had been in that area for twenty-eight, thirty months;
they knew what it was. So, I'd told the Captain that we had a case of Australian
candy. Well, we took one or two boxes ashore and left the rest of them on the
ship. When we got ashore, he says, "Let me have some of that Australian
candy." And I reached in there and opened up the box, handed it to him. I said,
"We brought one of these ... or two of these boxes along." He took it, smelled
of it, looked at it, bit down on it, pitched it to a dog. The dog smelled of it,
turned around and walked off.
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