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WH: Are there any other questions you'd like to ask?

ES: Another thing, along with that, after I came back from Frisco, examination of Denver, Colorado, I was asked to volunteer for Tooele ordinance depot to see what it's like, and see if some evacuees would work there. So I spent a couple days with the colonel there -- can't think of the colonel's name now -- and he spent a, treated me royally, I went to all the facilities, all the storage bunkers underground, and what the job was paying, and came back to camp and I thought they're gonna really beat me up. And I went to each mess hall, each block, and told them what I saw and what they're offering, and I never been bothered. Afterwards, I learned quite a number of them volunteered to work over there.

WH: So sometimes your job made you a little fearful about people beating you up or calling you inu or something like that, but you still did it, and you never had any problems?

ES: No, I never had any problems. Like I said before, stop, look, listen. If I shot my mouth off the first time I hear it, I'll be slapped down just as fast. That's what I found out all through my life.

WH: But if you stop, look and listen, you'll be okay?

ES: Yeah.

WH: I see.

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