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TI: Well, going on, so did you attend high school in Molokai, also?

FM: Yeah, Molokai High School.

TI: And when you graduated, what did you do after you graduated from high school?

FM: I stayed in Molokai, and I worked as a -- just about that time, some GIs were moving to the islands. So we work on the U.S. government, we started to build some barracks and all that kind of stuff, U.S...

TI: Now why would the GIs move to Molokai?

FM: I don't know, yeah. The war wasn't going on at that time, yet. I guess for training purposes or... security reasons, I don't know.

BK: So what year was that then?

FM: About '40... '39, '40.

TI: And so you were able to get jobs, building barracks you said, and things like that?

FM: Uh-huh, yeah.

TI: And how was that? Was that pretty good work to do?

FM: Yeah, uh-huh. Carpenter work you know.

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