[BIGLOOK]

I was a returning vet in 1972, moved to Hawaii to go to school.....some place I could afford on the GI Bill...after working a year and paying taxes to get residency. I worked as a cab driver and as such had to know all the locations and quickest routes to all the hospitals, clinics and ERs as well as the government offices and buildings, airports and harbor, parks and public areas to get a license to drive cab. Lasted little less than a year since it wasn't making money but paid the rent and I got to know Honolulu well. There were Queens, Kaiser and Tripler and a TB hospital out by Diamond Head. Castle Hospial was in Kailua but that was the windward side of the island. Kapiolani and Straub were clinics, mainly outpatients only.

At the UH at Manoa, their were a bunch of nursing students crammming their schedules to get jobs at the newly opened Kapiolani Hospital. Lot's of full time positions to be filled in the new building rather than subbing or part time at Queens or Kaiser. That was in 1974.

[BIGLOOK]

Correction.....Returning vet in ‘71, moved to Hawaii in early ‘72.

[little jeremiah]

Great!!! Just what I wanted to hear.

I lived in HI on and off starting in around 69 or early 70. I was a patient in Queens for a week. Don’t remember what was happening with Kapiolani at that time.

So this is a total fabrication. Thanks for the rest of the story...

Kevmo, this might interest you!

[Oorang]

Very interesting, thanks for taking the time to explain the details. Also, thanks for your service. My oldest brother and a Uncle were returning vets at the same time as you. So glad all you gentlemen made it home safely.