102_years_wwii

"No one asked what's that best thing that ever happened to me... you know what it is? how I got into Medical School! I was taking a course in physical chemistry, and after I took the final exam the prof called me into his office and he told me I was the only one of 50 guys that I got a perfect score on exam. He was on the admission committee of the medical school. He said he was going to get me into medical school. So he did. It was a very an event that made me feel very good, it turned out not to be important because I was admitted to 3 medical schools. St. Louis, Duke and Temple." (He went to Temple).

he said " Who's saying that?".. we then explained you are a stranger, and he said "You are a very nice fellow."

"To die and to donate my body to medical science."

"The guys from...uhh.. the Beatles!"

"At the time we felt that was the thing we had to do to settle war, but afterward it was a dreadful thing because it did so much damage and killed so many people in Japan."