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DG: Let's stay with Pearl Harbor time. Now, something that I do know is that you started making plans to lease your business.

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: Tell me about some of the things that happened, if you can. About hiring the lawyer?

RM: Oh, yeah. Well, no, the lawyer, he was -- I didn't have nothing against him, but we couldn't travel more than a five mile radius, but gosh, I mean, from Nahcotta to South Bend is about 50 miles.

DG: Oh, it's that far.

RM: Yeah. So I said, "No matter what anybody says, I'm going to get there some way," and that's where I got caught, on the way. The young soldier was really excited, guns pointin' to my head. And then the fellow comes down and he says, he scolded him and told him, "No, he's an American citizen, so you let him go." If it wasn't for him, I don't know what would have happened.

DG: So this was when you were traveling from Nahcotta to South Bend.

RM: South Bend, yeah.

DG: To hire a lawyer.

RM: Yeah, well, my lawyer was living in south Raymond is where he was living.

DG: Okay.

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