| OCR Text |
Show PAUL FRANKE OCTOBER 2, 2001 kids." He says, "You haven't got enough points to get out." He says, "How would you like to get out?" I says, "In the worst way." He says, "I think we can get you out on a disability." HEL: Dependency. PAU: Dependency, yeah. BBL: Because of the two kids? HEL: Yeah. BBL: I see. HEL: See, in those days, you had to have so many points before you could be released from the service. PAU: Overseas counted so much- HEL: If you'd gone overseas, all the years, the amount of years you 'd been in the service. Now, somebody like Henry Duehlmeier had enough points because he'd gone overseas. But he and they both went in about the same time. And he come home about the time he got out of the hospital because the war was over with by then. BBL: Right. So, did he get you out then? PAU: Yeah. He says, "Could you do me a favor?" I says, "Yeah, I think so." I said, "What is it?" He said, "I bought a refrigerator," he says, "and it doesn't work." He says, "I see you're a refrigeration mechanic." T says, "Yeah, I'll come and take a look at it." [says, "Does the motor work?" He says, "No it won't work at all." Well, those old refr igerators, they weren't like they are now. It was all in a self-contained hermetically sealed unit that was a motor and a belt and a flywheel and a compressor. So he says, "Well, will you come up to my place?'' I says, "Sure, I sure will." I went up there and I |
