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TI: So you went back, so you got this information and you crawled back up. And...

RM: Yeah, and so that's why, now, come think of it, of course, I been in foxhole and then told 'em anybody move don't shoot 'em because Lieutenant Lynch went to check the perimeter and he came back wrong place, not the same place. So people was aware somebody climb up, open up and kill their own, Lieutenant Lynch was killed by own people.

TI: So there's a --

RM: It wouldn't happen to me, too.

TI: So there's a, there's a danger there as you crawled back --

RM: So that come back way you went up, then come back so I study and brief and I didn't know that, remember who it was, but three years ago I went to a Marauder reunion and the guy says, "You remember me?" After sixty years, how could I remember? I, then, of course, I know he come to reunion so he must be a Marauder, so I just guessed, saying, "You in 2nd Battalion?" Because people come to know me in the 3rd, but other, see, I don't know. So must've known me. So, "You're in the 2nd Battalion?" He says, "Yeah." "Where, is that Nhpum Ga?" He says, "Yeah." He says, "Don't you remember me? My name is Kohler." "No." Then he says, "Oh, I was your foxhole buddy." Then he's the guy. So he saved my life, he didn't shoot me. [Laughs] I came back there. Of course, after he jokingly tell me, "Good thing you didn't shoot me." I said, that's why he remember, that's the green combat team. Blue combat team I know, but I was originally blue. But nobody but me, blue combat team, but they assigned me to green combat team, then come back to blue and I was the one running around. And meantime, I didn't know how sick Bob Honda was but he wrote the diary and says scare each time artillery burst, he counted so many. He wrote it down. Of course, he passed away, not here but -- so in other words, I'm the only one there --

TI: And not only are you the only one but you're not only, as you crawl out there, you could be captured by the Japanese, or when you're coming back, you could be shot by the U.S. soldiers --

RM: Sure.

TI: -- in doing this.

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