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TI: Alice, do you have any other questions?

AI: Well, I did just want to finish up with just to finish up with your family, that you didn't just have one daughter, you actually...

RM: Oh, yeah, didn't come to that. Two daughters, yeah, after came back, well, the order to come back, then Karen was born. What happened was, when I was in Okinawa they assigned me to 6th Armored Division stationed at Camp Roberts, California. And I was supposed to go there, the order read, because no longer you're able to serve in Okinawa because overstayed, more than three -- I stayed three and a half years. Three years the limit, but I say it's more than four years because I was in Japan before that. And so I have to be rotated and go there but on account of delaying action I didn't get there, but I'm not able because officially I'm there but no shipping order come. The reason that transportation informed me to go to Naha instead of White Point.

TI: Roy, I'm gonna interrupt you because we have just one more minute left on tape and I just wanted to ask you if there's anything that you want to say about Karen or Fumi as a closing statement.

RM: Okay, anyway, well, assigned and Karen was born in Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco and then they went to school, meantime, I was assigned to Fort Story, Virginia and that's why I retire. But they went to school then came back with me after retirement, then since my home in Berkeley, both of 'em were Berkeley High graduate, honor student and accepted at UC and graduated honor student, both of 'em, and one, well, of course I'm just a sergeant couldn't ever support but they got the scholarship and Fumi, the elder one, got California -- I mean, the University of California Alumni Association Scholarship grant and then the other one is, get the California State P.T.A. scholarship and start -- finish school and honor student and they're both successful. Fumi's semi-retired, now part-time teach at the University of Alaska, Southeast, that is Juneau and Karen work for this IslandWood in Bainbridge Island and is a science coordinator and she got the Master of Education degree and doing well, so I'm very happy, even though at my, ninety years old I been livin' a happy, happy life. And that's one way to keep me goin' and I'm very happy have two nice daughters and I have three grandchildren and all of 'em honor students and two of 'em are high school seniors and probably most of 'em, two of 'em like to go into Oregon State, most likely.

TI: Well, I mean --

RM: That's about it.

TI: Yeah, that's about it.

RM: That's why I'm very happy. That's one way to keep me goin' even though I'm over ninety years old but I'm very happy and I have a nice wife, been married for fifty-six years. And just say I'm happy.

TI: [Laughs] Roy, thank you so much.

RM: Okay.

AI: Thank you very much.

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