we had lost so many men. >> so, you know, talk to me about some of the patients at the hospital and what they had been through, and were you able to talk to them and comfort them? do you remember any of them, specifically, pat? >> yes, i do. i had met one man dancing at seattle when we stopped there, and we were only allowed to tell our name and i just called my nickname, which was pat. and then when we got over there, i had an office right near the captain's office, and i would watch them haul for him when he was at lunch and i found the man walking in the hall outside, so i got up to question, and here it was the young man that i had met in seattle. and so, we had chow together,