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production work. Major Burns instructed us to report to the Medical
Department.
My greeting in the medical clinic was unusual. Each soldier was
called into a room to meet privately with two doctors. One doctor asked
me, “Sergeant, why do you want to get out of the Army?” I replied,
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me here.” The two doctors examined my left hand carefully. They then
asked, “How did you ever get into the Army?” They then stated, “You
should have never been inducted.” That ended the interview.
A friend who worked with Major Burns asked me, “Did you
know you would be discharged in a couple of days?” Shortly thereafter
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charged. He added that he hoped I would go back into work supporting
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win the war and wanted to help wherever I could. A couple of days later
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me my accrued pay plus rail fare back to Salt Lake, from which I had
been inducted. I was discharged from the Army on September 24, 1942.
I had telephoned Jean to tell her what was happening. It seemed
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portunity than Salt Lake, so I hitchhiked to Berkeley (to save money)
and began sleeping on a cot in my parents’ apartment.

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