Impacts of Hong Kong
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Impacts of Hong Kong
I guess I wasn’t the best guy to live with. I’m surprised my
wife has put up with me for long. Well I went from, starting, I
boozed ‘er up there for a few years, I guess, till I found out
that wasn’t paying off, so. I haven’t had a smoke or a drink for
years now, so. I still have physical problems. I have an
artificial stomach and I have a knee that was all buggered up
during the fighting, and they won’t give me nothing for it. Oh,
they want me now to go for a reboard, but the hell with them
now, I’m 80 some years old, I’m not going back to . . . I spent
all, every year, I was at Deer Lodge Hospital, even when I was
working after I come back. They called me in every year for a
reboard. I started out, I think I was getting 5% pension. I
think it went up to about 25%, and then, I forget what year it
was that they . . . . Oh, yes it was in ‘66 when I had the big
stomach, like I had ulcers when I come back. And then my ulcer
ruptured and I had to have an artificial stomach. And after
that, I was . . . now I forget what I was going to say, but . . .
Interviewer: You were just talking about the physical problems
that you continued.
Oh, yeah, well, like I couldn’t eat much with this stomach for a
long time. I still have swelling in my legs, and my nerves are
still gone. Yeah. Every once in a while I have some awful nights.
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