CDW: AND YOU JUST DID EVERYONE'S BIDDING, SO TO SPEAK, I GUESS?
MB: I DID EVERYTHING THEY COULDN'T GET ANYBODY ELSE TO DO.
CDW: DID YOU WORK THE RADIO.
MB: OH, YES.
CDW: TELL ME ABOUT THE RADIO SYSTEM--THAT SOUNDS INTERESTING.
MB: WELL, THEY HAD BY THAT TIME GONE TO THE TWO-WAY RADIO. THE MAN
THAT TRAINED ME--THERE WERE 2 OPERATORS--THAT'S ALL, AND THEY
WORKED 12 HOURS ON AND 12 HOURS OFF AND THEY CALLED A TROOPER
IN TO RELIEVE THEM FOR THEIR DAY OFF AND I RELIEVED THEM AT
NOON OR IF THEY WERE ILL OR ANYTHING ELSE. I NEVER WILL FORGET
THEY HAD A TROOPER ON DUTY ONE MORNING AND THE OPERATOR GOT
SICK AND THEY SENT HIM HOME AND CALLED THIS TROOPER IN AND
COLONEL KIRKMAN CALLED HIM. HE ALWAYS SOUNDED LIKE A BEAR ON
THE RADIO. THE TROOPER CALLED ME AND ASKED ME TO COME TAKE THE
RADIO AND HE GOT OUT OF THERE. THE COLONEL HAD CALLED HIM FROM
WAY UP THE ROAD AND WHEN HE GOT TO INTERLACHEN HE CALLED ME.
HE CAME IN THE STATION IN A FEW MINUTES AND I DIDN'T HEAR HIM
COME IN AND HE WALKED UP BEHIND ME AND HE SAYS "WELL, WHY DON'T
YOU GET UP AND GO TO WORK". IT SCARED ME NEARLY TO DEATH
BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW ANYBODY ELSE WAS AROUND. YOU KNOW HE
LIVED HERE. HE MET MRS. KIRKMAN HERE, AND MARRIED HER. SHE
RAN A MILLINERY SHOP.
CDW: WHAT WAS HER NAME?
MB: MRS. KIRKMAN.
CDW: WHO WAS THE FIRST SERGEANT--THE FIRST SERGEANT WAS THE SUPPLY
MAN--WHO WAS THAT?
MB: WELL, HE CAME SHORTLY AFTER I DID AND I WENT TO LAKE CITY WITH
HIM TO SEPARATE THE RECORDS OF THE EQUIPMENT LOGS. TO SAVE MY
LIFE, I CAN'T THINK OF HIS NAME NOW.
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