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here, I saw more opportunity for people who want to work so I decided to be a U. S. citizen.”
At that point, Uncle Sam got into the act and welcomed the new citizen with a draft notice. “The trouble is, they put me in the mess hall,” Samson recalled. “I had no choice. I got involved with food and I kind of liked it so I decided I wanted to be a real good cook. Now I engineer food,” he joked.
He began as a specialist in breakfast. As anyone with military experience knows, eating the morning meal in a mess hall is often a very lonely affair. Faced with a menu that’s centered around powdered eggs, cold cereal, limp toast and greasy bacon, most service men choose a few minutes of extra sleep. So when Samson’s cream beef on biscuits began to pack in soldiers first thing in the morning, the brass took notice.
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"Then the club people heard about me and wanted me in the club system, even though I only knew how to cook breakfast,” Samson said. He worked in a NonCommissioned Officer’s Club for three months before his boss got into trouble. Samson was then appointed by the Post Commander to fill the vacancy as club manager.
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