It wasn't all work. We spent a lot of time in Gotemba. This is a bar where we hung out when on liberty. Our liberty schedule was port and starboard, we had off every other weekend. It is amazing how close you get to the other Marines in you squad. Don't know where any of the are now, but when you eat, sleep, work, and play with develop a bond. Someone once told me that people you meet in the Marines are just military acquaintance. You get close to them tho. Front row -- Benjamin Petty, James Petty, Wheeler. Back row Streets, Piffer, Wilder, Charles Patterson. In the Marines everyone goes by their last names. In a lot of cases you never knew their first name, unlesss you had people with the same last name like the two Petty's.
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