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EG: So while you were... after military service, on your own in Japan, working in the repatriation, you also had time to do some things for yourself, didn't you? Did you get to travel, did you get to see your family again?

TM: Yes, after my family came to join me, which was latter part of 1947...

EG: Your wife and children?

TM: Yes.

EG: Oh. No, I was thinking of your Japanese family, but fine, I didn't know that your wife and children came to Japan.

TM: Yeah, they came to join me about Thanksgiving time of '47, and stayed until summer of 1950 when we came back here.

EG: Oh, grand. I didn't know that that had happened.

TM: Yeah, so wife had good experience, you might say, of Japan or in Japan for about, what is it, about two and a half years or so.

EG: Did she have any family there that she could visit?

TM: Yes, she had her cousins and uncles in Hiroshima.

EG: Hiroshima?

TM: Yes.

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