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DN: Did, you've been involved in recent years with working on trying to get a memorial down at the spot where...

EH: Eagledale, yes.

DN: Can you talk about how that came about?

EH: Well, okay, then we've got to go to Frank Kitamoto. Well, see, Jerry was the head of this Japanese group, or whatever they want to call themselves, to promote the Japanese deal. And then Frank Kitamoto got elected as the chairman, and, I don't know, Jerry, he says, "Earl, you got to, you got to come and be with us," and this Jarvis, who's from the National Park Service, and what's the gal's name? I can't think of it. I could find out. They were, they had turned my name in, and so that's why, the connection comes there. And then I've been helpin' 'em, and then they had a dedication at the Eagledale park deal there, before it was a, it's still not a park, and I was asked to be one of the guest speakers, so I had to get up and tell about the class of '41 and the good, good guys that we had in our class.

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