But I was audacious too. See, I just had enough experience as a leader in the war. I think in a large measure, it was due to two things. One is the fact that I knew I had the support of Belle Benchley, director of the San Diego Zoo. And she said, I’ll help in any way I can, we’ll help. And the other, Mark, was that wartime experience of being in all those invasions, leading landing craft up on hostile beaches, and sometimes night and day, in (indistinct), for example, four days and four nights with no sleep. It builds way more confidence than any normal 24-year old should have, but I’d had this objective from the time, I knew I was gonna build, I wanted to build a zoo. I knew I wanted to live in Hawaii.
