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can tell you that this guy is dead - I
don't remember his name," he said,
pointing to one soldier in the photo,
"and this one doesn't know how to
crawl," he added, pointing to anoth-
er who is on his hands and knees.
Goddard was in the Philippines
when the war ended and, returning
to the U.S., finished high school in
Pasadena. He got a job running a
restaurant in Pasadena and helped
the owner turn it into a smorgasbord
- a new idea at the time.
St. George's Smorgasbord
eventually expanded into a chain
throughout Southern California,
with restaurants in San Diego,
Hemet and other locations, super-
vised by Goddard.
After l0 years, he said, he was
ready for something else. He'd met
Bobbie and they were married in
1962. Also, he said, that was the
year he became a born-again Chris-
tian.
They moved to San Luis
Obispo, where he met Bob Davis,
owner of the first motel in America,
the Apple Farm.
Goddard already had a daughter
when they were married and a sec-
ond was born, and a son. Bobbie got
a job as finance director for San Luis
Obispo County and Darrell helped
Davis develop the Apple Farm into
a thriving business with a store and
a restaurant.
Over the years they've moved
around.
"We've lived in 14 dwelling
places," Darrell said. In 1982 they
left Lodi, in the San Joaquin Valley
in California, and moved to Coquille,
then to Sweet Home in 2006.
A thoughtful man, Goddard
reflects back on his war experience
with emotion.
He said he had known Japanese,
particularly while working at the
coffee bar Pasadena, and had mixed
feelings about finding himself fight-
ing them.
"On both sides of us were Japa-
nese people," he said of his pre-war
days'. "I was close to those guys. All
of a sudden, they were gone. I really
liked them.
"I always loved the Japanese.
Then I got to be a warrior and killed a
lot of people. When I found out what
they did, those people who almost
took over China, that didn't change
the affection I had for them."
He said he did feel hostility to-
ward the Japanese government lead-
ers who "sent an army to kill every-
body in the world.
"We spent about 18 months
or so on Bougainville knowing we
had to prepare because the Japanese
Army had perpetrated the Rape of
Nanking. I realized this was a hor-
rible offense to God. At that point it
was 'go get them.'"
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