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Show JUN KURUMADA RI 18, sending future, you might say future clients to other dentists. And th n a ut a k prior to my call they rescinded the orders. And in the meantime why- BEC: With any explanation? JUN: No. They just cancelled my orders to go into the service. And that went on, actually, that went on for actually thirteen years. Every year I d get an order to wind up my business and the order from the War Department was to go into, to be ready to go into the service. And that was on up until1953. BEC: So it started in 1940, when you got your first letter? l JUN: Well, when I applied for my commission, that was in 1940. Well, then after the war, after Pearl Harbor, and I think it was about the first or second month in 1942 then I received a new classification, such as which is equivalent with an enemy aliens classification. So they didn't bother any further communication. Except they would send me letters to wind up my business and get ready to go. In the meantime, in 1941, I got married. And when I finally got called in, why I was forty years old and I had four children. And then they drafted me. BEC: In 1953? JUN: Yes. The point there was that prior to November '53, I received the notice to wind up my business and be ready to be called. And I just ignored it because I'd been receiving that for the past thirteen years. So I was in the office that Monday morning and my assistant, the secretary was a girl named Jean Like, and she says, "I got a telephone call from the Adjutant General in Fort Sam Houston in Texas." So I answered the phone and he said, "Well, you ignored our letters to appear for enlistment." I said, "I've been receiving these letters for the past thirteen years and each time they've 11 |
