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They kept me around there after the operation and when I started to heal I played intramural basketball on the base. I was short, and there were all of these six-foot-seven hotshots around. But I played with them. I could jump. I was fast and I was a good shot.

What I wasn’t doing much of was being a soldier while I was recovering. I really enjoyed my time in San Francisco. I wasn’t doing them any good and after some time they decided to grant me a disability discharge. It wasn’t as if my two years was nearly up as that they felt I could not perform at a top level. I received an honorable discharge with a disability.

That ended my army service. I had spent time in California, in Korea, Washington, and back in California. I had had some good experiences and seen some good cities, but in the winter of 1974 I was done and released from the army. I had seen a little bit of the world and I was ready to go back to Akiak.

When I got out of the service I was around twenty-two years old and I missed home. Ted arrived back in Akiak a day before I did after combat in Vietnam. He started having nightmares about his time in the war.