Mr. Griffin. What was the reason for your leaving?
Mr. Rubenstein. Overage. They told me they had no more use for me. They apologized, I had a good record. I got an excellent discharge, they were sorry but they wanted a younger man in my place.
Mr. Griffin. What did you do after you left the service?
Mr. Rubenstein. I stayed in Seattle.
Mr. Griffin. How long did you stay there?
Mr. Rubenstein. About 10 weeks.
Mr. Griffin. Then what did you do?
Mr. Rubenstein. I signed up with the U.S. Army Engineers to go to Alaska, to go to work as a carpenter. I felt I wanted to do something. They were going to build barracks out there. I waited and waited and waited and I got tired of waiting, so I asked the company that hired me to release me, because they did not know when I would be put on a boat to go across. The Army would have allowed only two men, civilians, with the regular soldiers to go across Alaska at a time.
Well, I probably would have been there for 4 years waiting yet so I decided to ask for a release, and they gave me a release and I went back to Chicago.
Mr. Griffin. So the 10 weeks you spent waiting?