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That was the saddest thing I've ever seen when we got to, got off the boat at Inchon. Interviewer: Roughly what year and what month was it that you landed at Inchon? It was January ‘54, and what hurt me the most, was we were starved. We hadn't eaten, and when they did give us something to eat, we were on the tube train going back to, up towards Seoul. And here was some little kids with, some with an arm gone, some with a leg gone, so, I couldn't eat, we all gave ‘em our food and the old Koreans there, we'd throw our cigarettes out to them, and then I knew what life was kind of rough for them over there, compared to what we were treated in Canada. I thought we went through a hard, hardship during the war because lack of money and food, but at least we had a home and nobody was firing bullets at us, so...

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