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These are from the reception after the wedding. Father Michel is telling jokes in english and Japanese as we all drink beer or cider. The guy on the extreme left is 'Hitzmann' (forgot his first name). He was the only Catholic I knew and he agreed to be my best man. He brought his Japanese girlfriend with him. Bases near Tokyo were restricted at the time because of a flu epidemic and we were the only two G.I.s at the wedding.

We did a brief honeymoon in Kinugawa near Nikko but stayed only one night because we missed Tokyo.