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BT: Yeah, one of the perennial questions that are asked of guys who have been around into different theaters of war, "How do you feel or how do you like all those places that you've visited," maybe not under the best of conditions, but countries normally foreign to most of us. Well, we've been to the mainland, and to the Midwest, New York, Washington, down through the South. And of course, speaking of girls, you see the whole range of girls, all beautiful girls, you see a wonderful country out there, then you go overseas, see a bit of north Africa and Italy, see a lot of Italy. A lot of Italy, much of it in ruins, of course. So by the time I came home through Seattle, Washington, having passed through San Francisco and parts of Oregon to get to Seattle, I had seen quite a bit of the country that I had never expected to see. Well, you know, after being away for something like almost two and a half, almost three years, I came back to Hawaii and I thought Hawaii was the most beautiful place in the whole wide world. Even the girls that I used to know, little girls when I left the islands, who used to be young, pigtails, some even still in hanabata stage. When I came home, all of a sudden I viewed them in a different light. They had blossomed out into beauties. And I thought this was the most fascinating evolution that had taken place while I was gone. I didn't know how it happened, but after seeing the rest of the world, I thought nothing could beat Hawaii.

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