Unusual Greeting and Response

And it was a 24 hour train ride into Yokohama, here's a good little story. We got into Yokohama, it wasn't 24 it was 22 hours actually, to be quite honest with you. We left at eight o'clock in the morning and we got to Yokohama at about six o'clock in the morning so that's how far back we were, we were a long ways back. And the last half of the journey was an electric train and we went like stink, so we were travelling along. We pull into Yokohama and they brought us, put us on the docks there and we all, lined us all up on the docks. And about, I don't know, about 400 of us about half a dozen trucks squeal in there, American army trucks, the ones with the snake bodies, one with those canvas over the top. And the drivers jump out, and opens up the back doors on them and puts a little ladder down, holy cow, you never seen anything like this in your life. Dressed immaculately in army uniforms, girls, they picked out nothing like, you know, you name it, they picked them out. And these girls were supposed to be a greeting party for prisoners of war for four years, and they was told to race out among us guy and hug us and kiss us. Well they come racing out and they started to grab our guys, Christ, we hadn't see a girl for four year and the guys, we were scared, we were frightened. Guys were on the dock running behind big packing cases, hiding and everything. It was unbelievable. Anyway they got us consoled, the girls welcomed us there. Then they lined us all up and General McCarthy come there to see us and he shook hands with each and everyone of us men. He didn't miss anybody.