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DG: So then you had that incident as you went to get your papers straight, as far as leasing it to somebody.

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: And did you say it was on the Pallacks bridge or something?

RM: Pallacks.

DG: Where is that?

RM: Well, that's between South Bend and Nahcotta, about halfway somewhere.

DG: And so were you by yourself?

RM: Yeah. Yeah, I was crossing the bridge there and the soldiers come down and pointed the gun at my head and asked me what I was doin', and he says, "Well, I guess we'll have to take you to headquarters." And then the lieutenant come down and he saved my neck.

DG: Now, lieutenant was somebody you knew?

RM: No. No, he knew better than, you know. I mean, he understood all that. No, I didn't know him. So he came down and he said, "No, you let him go because he's an American citizen." Yeah, I told him, "I'm an American citizen." and all that. And I says, "I don't know why I'm gettin' treated like this." So I left there.

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