JS: Well, military life is certainly not a normal life. You're, you have follow orders. [Laughs] Nobody likes to do that, but you get used to it and you fall in when you're called out, and the meals are never that great, but it's, that's the way life is in the army. But training was difficult in the sense that -- not physically -- but the, interacting with the Hawaii boys was difficult. They had an opinion of the mainland guys and they spoke funny. [Laughs] And so at first, there were some hard feelings between the mainland guys and the Hawaii guys, but they were the greater in number. Actually, of the -- I'm just gonna use an example -- but of the 3,000-plus men in the Regimental Combat Team, two-thirds were from Hawaii.

TI: And so when you say "difficulties," how would that show up? I mean, were there... yeah, what would happen when you say "difficulties"?

JS: Oh, there were some fights, and they had their groups. And we were kind of left out because we were mainlanders, and they were the greater in number also. But we came together pretty well, considering everything. But once we got overseas, then everything was fine.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.