firefighter at Schofield Barracks. About this time, his Service Battery buddy, Minoru Hirozawa, introduced Sanda to his sister, Doris Michie Hirozawa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Masaichi Hirozawa of Eleele, Kauai. They married on August 6, 1949, at Holy Trinity Church in Honolulu. Minoru was their best man and another 522nd Service Company buddy,