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TI: The next thing, at lunch yesterday you mentioned this and I didn't understand or realize this but you actually got a nice little bonus when you went to Camp Savage in that you were reunited with your brother. You found out that your brother was the company clerk at Camp Savage. And he had earlier been drafted before the war, had been in the army and then was assigned to Camp Savage and then you later on met him there. What was it like when you saw him?

RM: Well, I was surprised. But then the other way, the... surprise and not surprise because he attended, he was graduated from Los Angeles City College.

TI: And I should mention this is your brother Tom.

RM: Brother Tom, yes. And so, and so he didn't have to become a student. Well, could be an instructor but since he went to administrative school at Camp, I mean, at Fort Leavenworth, so he became company clerk, typing. They teach typing and so forth and procedures, and so assigned as a company clerk at the Camp Savage. So he was in the factory or just overhead there. But the meantime he applied for OCS and they sent him to Fort Benning and became an officer.

TI: Did you and your brother ever talk about the family in Japan and possibly what was happening to them when you saw, saw Tom?

RM: Well, let's see, since the war broke out there's no more correspondence so we just worry about it but we didn't think about atomic bomb or things like that because at the time they were in Hiroshima and thought pretty safe. Then start to worry is when, well, that's later on in, while I'm in China.

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