have one person less to take care of. Going there or elsewhere. I could have gotten killed at work the same way. He had cultivated some land behind where we lived. My father went to see a lawyer and obtained an exemption for a "farmer's son". I wanted to join the army. I learned that they were going to create a reserve army. They asked if I was interested. I talked about it to a few of my friends. We went during the fall of 1942. I enlisted in the reserve army. I didn't tell my parents. When we went to enlist, they told me to go get my kit; my helmet, my rifle, my backpack, everything. We went to get our equipment. We had to return three days later. When my mother saw me arrive at our house with those things, she said to me, "Where are you going with that?" I told her that I had enlisted in the army. She made a scene. I told her that I would only be called if they needed me. I was going to stay in Chandler. I stayed in the reserve army. I was there until [19]45. I worked in the factory. We worked. We were about 100 or 125 in the reserve army. They had put us into three groups. I had Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. We only received the news from the radio, we didn't have any journalists or televisions like they do today. My parents were always