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.