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[previous] Johnny Martin, he just died about a year ago. When we come back, I went up to see him right after the war. He lived up in Columbus Ohio. [My wife] Frannie and I went to see him and he said to me quietly: "Don't tell my mom I have a tattoo, and don't tell her I drink." He was nothing but a souse! You can't hide the damn tattoo, and you can't hide the fact that you drink. And when they found out, they blamed me. So I took the blame. This one here [left arm], you can just about see, it's a cross and it's got my brother's name on it, -- Dunc, that's my brother who was killed in Italy that was his nickname "Dunc", that's like a cross with a wreath on it. He's buried in Cassino, Italy. That's the last one I got done.
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