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AI: Well, now as you were getting to be a teenager and going to high school, what were some of the things that you were thinking of? You were, you'd, I think just were beginning high school. What were some of your hopes, or dreams, or plans for, as you were getting older?

RT: Well, now when I started high school -- I started Bellevue High School as a freshman, and I don't know that my parents ever preached to us that, that we had to do this, or had to do that, as we grew up. In other words, they didn't proscribe anything. And at the same time, they did not insist that we do certain things, either; in other words, that you had to be a teacher, or you had to be a farmer. No, I think they were very willing to let us decide for ourselves. And I must say that, I started as a freshman at Bellevue High School and I really didn't have any big burning desire to be anything, except have a good time, I guess. I enjoyed high school, and it was a little bit broadening simply because it was a bigger school, you saw a lot more kids and the subjects were a little different, and it was, it was quite fun. And of course, no sooner had I started than, of course, the war broke out.

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