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(interviewer)
What kind of guy was Dan?

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What kind of Dan?

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(interviewer)
What kind of guy was he?

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- What kind of guy?
- (interviewer) Yeah.

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In what manner you trying...

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(interviewer)
You said he was no-nonsense?

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Yeah, he was no-nonsense, very strict.

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He wanted done things,
he didn’t want it this much,

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he wanted it all the way up,
that’s his style.

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(interviewer)
So he pushed you?

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No, he didn’t push people,
but he would push the whole thing.

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He said, “Eh, I want it this way.”

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He wouldn’t go to any individual
and say, “I want you to do this.”

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He didn’t do that.

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But they would say, “Alright guys,
this is the way it’s gonna be,”

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and that’s the way it’s gonna be.

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(interviewer) What examples
during the war in Europe do you have?

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Okay, the first day we were in battle.
He and I were right next to each other.

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I was right in the back of him,
right in the side of the building.

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The machine gun bullet came on the side,
and he goes, “Oh, my face.”

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The splinters of the wall, of the clay,
I guess, went on his face,

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and I said, “Eh, hey Dan,
you get blood in your face.”

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So he went back.

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He didn’t say anything,
he just turned around

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and went back to the road
to get picked up

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by, you know, they had this
so-called pick up ambulance, pick up the--

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What do you call it…
Medics, the medics then would come

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over there with the truck,
pick up the people on the side.

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So I guess--
I didn’t see him go out through there,

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but I saw him walking there,
going toward there,

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so I guess that’s where he went.

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So after that,
I didn’t see him for a long time

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and then later on, after so many weeks,
somebody told me,

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“Eh, Ralph. Dan got hit, you know.”
I said, “Eh? How bad?”

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“He might lose his arm.”
“Oh…”

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And then I didn’t see him at all
till I came Hawaiʻi.

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He told the medic, “Eh, tell Ralph
and Toshi I’ll meet them in Hawaiʻi.”

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(interviewer)
Where was that, where he..?

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Oh, that was in Italy.
Was that in Italy or France?

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Gee, I’m not sure,
but I thought it was in Italy, though.

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It might’ve been in the Vosges.
Now I’m not quite sure where.

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I remember that guy telling me,
“Hey, Dan said to meet you,

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you and Toshi in Hawaiʻi.”

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(interviewer)
So did you know how bad the injury was?

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He told me, the guy told me
that he might lose his arm.

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Oooh…godarnit.

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He, Dan and I used to talk
and he used to tell me,

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“I’m thinking about trying be a doctor.”

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I look at him and think,
“Jesus Christ, what the hell

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is he talking about being a doctor,
we’re right in the middle of a war.”

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He was thinking of being a doctor.
He told me that he’s going to try.

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(interviewer) What other conversations
do you remember during the war with Dan?

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Oh Christ, I mean, years ago,
I can’t even remember.

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Oh, when we were in--
I just told you that?

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We were on the side of the building
and the splinters went on his face.

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Well…
We got separated.

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He was on a different squad,
I was on a different squad.

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So we got separated.

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We kept having contact with each other,
and when we came here in Hawaiʻi,

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we used to go to the nightclub,
Pago Pago.

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A few nightclubs we used to go...

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He liked to dance, he’s a good dancer,
and he knows it, too.

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[laughs]