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You know. I was with again another

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special group which is called

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a prisoner of war recovery team and
they had been countries represented

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by an officer and I was supposed
to be the guy so I just went

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in through Japan was eleventh Airborne
Division. When they first went in by plane

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into

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a two year strip and we proceed to process

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any prisoners in Japan American prisoners
or of my prisoners in Japan. Back to

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Okinawa. So the dig could be
rehabilitated and so forth and

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that was my duty to be their
guide and I think we spent

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a month or so doing that and I ended up in

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Sendai. And I came back and I

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was assigned to the
command the Allied Powers

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big anomic scientific division
and I was in the rationing and

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price control. So I was

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a language officer for that
section for so many months

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and then I came home so I didn't

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do too much but I noticed that the rising
price control had enough influence or

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you know it could make it
easier for the public and

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do become an interpreter. Rather

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than an interrogator and
interpreter you try to get each

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side thought to each other and
there is some influence that you

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could place and I guess as

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a nice A You always kind try
to help the Japanese look

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a little better you points

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a little bit you know more sympathetically
looked at so we really did have

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a lot of us of you for the Japanese because
we see in my city had suffered and how

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much suffering then you know.

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Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

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you know you know you know.
Yeah you know you you

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know. Well you know when you're like

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a tourney does it always makes
his client look better than the

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opposition right. So I do do do
kind of have certain influences

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in how it's being presented
and I really believe that

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the new series did

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a lot of that which the Japanese
public probably don't know about and

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I think it wasn't for
personal gain. It was trying

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to help somebody else who was less
fortunate. So I don't feel bad about doing.