Insult to injury

When we got to Manila, everybody got a hundred dollars in American money. I took, I think it was thirty five dollars and went out that night. And I put the rest in a cigarette package... took some cigarettes out. I had an all new kit and everything. We had these tents built on a… we were gonna have a hospital there when they attacked Japan. I was on a corner and while I was out, somebody swiped my kit, my cigarettes, my money, my everything. And I came back in, they had big trucks and everything all over and the ruts were that deep in the road. And it rained and I was in the mud. I remember sitting down in one of these ruts because it was just that deep. And I got back in and I went and I took a shower with my fatigues, everything I had on to wash the mud off ‘em. The next day, I was out of uniform because I didn’t have anything. An officer come along and he said, “You’re not in the Goddamn prison camp any longer,” he says. “Well, I haven’t got any clothes.” I got a new kit, but I didn’t get any money back.