Talk and communicate with them and bring up old ideas again what happened. bill: i want our audience to know that you are about 18 years old. you took a train from cincinnati, to san diego. never saw the ocean before. that was the first time. ohio was the biggest body of water bill: you meet your wife a week before you left. you stayed in touch, came home and married her. still together today. let me back off on that. the first two years i was in pearl harbor and then the last two years i got on the ship and that s when i met her just before i came back from pearl harbor. i had to stay at pearl for two years. i didn t get to go home at all. i missed my parents, family, you lose contact but when i came home for leave, i met mary at a whistle dance down at the center down there where we all got together and met her on the last whistle dance there and i