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Martin Griffin was born into a nature-loving family in Ogden, Utah. He moved to Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, California, and Oakland, California, where he graduated from high school before becoming an Army doctor. He discusses his early life, education at UC Berkeley, ROTC, time working at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, California to pay for medical school at Stanford University, memories of racial divide and Port Chicago, medical work in the Army and time at the Presidio base and Moffett Field, eradicating Hepatitis B on the West Coast, and the influence of nature on his life after WWII.