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Show COL. WILLIAM F. ROOS November 11,2004 headquarters· that in the short period of time I'd been there they had given me all kinds of these big important projects, and they just couldn't transfer them to anybody else. There was nobody else that could do it like I could. So, he looked at that and said, "Well, okay." He sent it back just exactly the way I drafted it, though. DAN: To MacArthur? BILL: To MacArthur. Now, of course, MacArthur himself never saw the stuff, but that's the way they always identify it, the headquarters. So, she continued to get ready to go, and was just about ready to get on the airplane. He came in again, a week or so later, and said, "Bill, take a look at this. Here's another one." It says, "Reference my earlier message. Return Captain William F. to his former unit." MacArthur. So, I said, "Well, you know. Gee, she'll arrive here and I won't even be here. And he said, "Well, give me another draft." So, I really laid it on thick on this draft about how important I was, and they just couldn't get along without me. DAN: You didn't mention in your draft that you were just about to get married? BILL: No, that wouldn't have-that wouldn't have made any difference at all. DAN: They didn't care. BILL: You know, who does this guy think he is? No, I didn't say anything like that. It was just how important I was. And we sent that in to MacArthur. And, apparently, that did it. They probably said, "Who are they trying to kid, this guy. There's no captain who's that important, but if they want him that bad let them keep him." So that was the end of that. I never heard a word about it. She arrived, and we got married in a little chapel at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. 71 |
