Resident of Truk from 1969-1983

Concusions
While I am at it and it is in my head, how do you protect yourself from concussion when u are hunkered down in a cave? Like this. First, the caves for shelter are built either in L or t-shape. That protects you from both shrapnel and baffles the sound. Then you do this (Try it, it works-be the first on your block to know this one, Justin!!) Take your left hand, pointing your 4 fingers forward and you thunb upward. Got it? Now, with the right side of your left-hand thumb, push in on your left notstril, where your cheek and nose meet. Do the same with you right hand, left side of right thumb against right nostril. Now comes the clever part. While pushing in on both sides of
your nose with your two thumbs, rotate backward, repeat rotate backwards 180 degrees your two hands, so that your forefingers fall naturally on your earholes, all the while keeping your nose shut with your thumbs. Ingenous! Ears and nose pinched shut simultaneously, and protection afforded for concussion. Marvelous idea, don't you think? I wonder if 3rd world countries at war know this one? Maybe you can patent the method and make a zillion.

Language
The bunker/pillbox is a totchka, says totch like the poach as in eggs, and ka like the New England car. Binox are bungkayo, boo like booger, kay like kaiser and o long, as in oh. Atomic Bomb is literally radiation bomb =kenshi pakutang. Ken like the name shi like the gal she and pakutang we already mentioned. Trukese vocab is 30 percent Japanese, but the words are old ones, and like the Japanese spoken in Hawaii is mostly thought to be quaint nowadays, like speaking Shakespearean English

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