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TI: And then while you were in Minneapolis, did you go visit your old school?

GH: Yes. I wanted to enroll at the University of Minnesota, but they told me to take advantage of my GI bill, but they told me that it was, the classes were filled, so they told me to wait one semester. So during that period, I did visit my friends at Fort Snelling, and they asked me what I was doing, I said I was waiting. They said they were short of instructors, so they asked me to teach, which I did. But in the meantime, the school moved from Fort Snelling to Presidio of Monterey.

TI: Now, as a teacher, were you teaching as a civilian?

GH: Yes.

TI: And so then the school was moved to, back to Monterey, back to the West Coast.

GH: Yes, uh-huh.

TI: And so you relocated to the, to the West Coast.

GH: Right. And at Monterey, I did get orders to report to...

TI: But during your time in Minneapolis, is that the time you met your wife?

GH: Yes.

TI: Because she was a student at...

GH: At the University of Minnesota.

TI: And how did you meet your wife?

GH: My brother's wife's brother's fiance was my wife's roommate.

TI: So you sort of, so through this connection...

GH: So I was introduced to my wife by...

TI: And how was it that the two of you got together? I mean, what was it about your wife that attracted you to her?

GH: Well, she was a beautiful lady, she was very intelligent, and for me, it was, I was quite attracted to her, yeah.

TI: And she ever tell you why she was attracted to you?

GH: No. [Laughs]

TI: [Laughs]

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