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TI: But then after you got married, you had a daughter, born in Japan?

RM: Yeah, Red Cross Hospital.

TI: What, why don't you tell, what was her name and about what year was...

RM: Fumi. I think it was '47, I think. '46, '48 or something like that. I don't know exact now. I could find out, that's --

TI: No, that's okay that's, but earlier, I mean, I interrupted you earlier but you were gonna tell me about your two daughters. Why don't you tell me a little bit about your two daughters, what they do now, where they live.

RM: Well, from there, something happened at the CIC, so since I been there before instead of some other stranger sending, they send me there because I happen to know the inside out there. And then in case find out that this was inside job so I report it, so, but instead of me, me being there before, so they don't wanna grill me, being grilled at the court so to eliminate the embarrassment, the officer in charge told make a sworn statement. In the meantime, they got transfer somewhere way far so that they cannot get a hold of me 'cause they have grudge against me 'cause I turned them in. And then court convince but I was away and, but place happened to be Okinawa. So I don't have to stand and they had a statement go by there and finally this court-martial came up and then concluded and few people were sentenced to...

TI: Yeah, so this was one of the, the, cases you worked on.

RM: So that's one of the reason I have to leave military police.

TI: Right. And so what I'm gonna do here is I'm really gonna jump forward in years.

RM: I'm coming to the girls here now. Then, I got the job in Okinawa and assigned to Signal Corps and still I'm doin' undercover but this the cover so they announce that I be in charge of the labor working for the Signal Corps, about five hundred men including the linemen, splicer, telephone operator, radio operator, and so forth. So I was doin' the job well. Now, my job was secure so I thought my wife should join me and put 'em in for transfer, then I went to headquarters and quarter, dependant quarter section says I could choose any building I wanted because I had priority over other people, seniority. So I decided to get my wife. Then the records show that I been there more than three years so instead of getting family, should be rotated stateside. So therefore I had to be sent back my wife and daughter. But I don't know whether I should tell you or not but I asked the transportation office, see, "What is the best way to stay here longer?"

TI: Right, you told me this story and about how you could delay your, your time --

RM: Departure.

TI: Departure.

RM: Well, meantime, I wanted my wife to stay as long as the family because they gonna go to foreign country, America, and they gonna miss them so let them have a good time as long, longer. Meantime, in order to delay, I should do something, then asked 'em transportation, "What is it things, delay?" Not illegal about it but they informed me to register at Naha Harbor.

TI: Yeah. No, you told me that story.

RM: I told you that.

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