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  1. Oh gosh, the snails!! BIG snails that came out during the rains and flattened tires. I was there 61-63. Two weeks after we arrived, the island was hit by Typhoon Tilda. Our housekeeper, Hiroko, was the oldest unmarried daughter in her family, and said she couldn’t wait to get married so she didn’t have to clean bones with saki during the Oban festival. So, for what that’s worth. Maybe it was a rural thing. Turtleback tombs built into the volcanic hillsides were secure, could hold urns of the whole family and freed up arable land for terrace farming. Used to go fishing with my dad (623rd AC&W) at Oona, Itomen, Ishikawa and Bolo Point. I was eight, (Tyler Elementary) so not sure how accurate the memories are-but do remember a goat mascot at Yozidake radar station, listening to Sugar Shack on VOA, and hacking our way to the beach through habu grass and sharp pineapple. Sometimes, the area was perfumed by thousands of wild white Easter lilies. Highlights of being a kid getting out of school for summers was being shown shark attack photos and a board with WWII-era blasting caps (as there was still a lot of unexploded ordinance around the island) and the smell of diesel smoke mixed with DDT, from the trucks that fogged the neighborhoods at sunset. Our Girl Scout troop took a landing craft to Iwo Shima on a field trip with Lady Baden-Powell, founder of the GS, so that tells you how old I feel.🙀 BTW, we lived at 5B Washington Court, in the new base housing section. When I saw the map showing the Officers Club, I suddenly thought of the smell of Sterno, which was used to keep the Sunday dinner buffet chafing dishes hot.
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