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BK: At the time that you went to Denver, what kind of commitment had you made to Mits, or were you still as a couple at that time?

JT: Yes, we were engaged, I guess a long way back. I should have told you that when he was in Camp Shelby, that's right, when he was in Camp Shelby his friend, Ben Sugiwara, he had married before that -- no, he married in Camp Shelby, I guess he did. His wife at that time traveled to Camp Shelby to get married to Ben. And so she was married to Ben and Ben was Mits' first sergeant. And he got an engagement ring at that time and he asked Kiki if she wouldn't mind bringing it back to me. So Kiki always said, "Well, I got -- June and I are engaged, you know." She'd always say, because she brought the engagement back, ring back to me and gave it to me in camp and said that Mits had set it up. And so that was just before we were leaving camp. So we were engaged for quite some time, then, before the time -- well, couple of months before we went down to Denver and traveled on. So I had that engagement ring with me all the time. And so we didn't, we didn't... I didn't see Mits, but then I got the ring from him. [Laughs]

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