The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight. I do not know why they screamed at that time. We were in the habor and they were all on the pier and at midnight they started screaming. We used to turn the searchlight on them to quiet them. That always did the trick. We'd run the searchlight up and down over them two or three times and they stopped it.
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The worst, he said, were the women with dead babies. You couldn't get the women to give up their dead babies. They'd have babies dead for six days.