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JT: Well, what I was wondering was, you're only about a year difference in age from your sister Carol. And then your sister Joanie and Eddie, so you're all about five years apart?

KN: Almost.

JT: All together. So did you do things together? Did you play... I mean, what did you do?

KN: No, most of us were all...

JT: Doing different things.

KN: Yeah. I never thought about that. I mean, I stayed with my brother a lot. Because he told me about going out of the camp. We're not supposed to... we snuck out, but when you're a kid, you do those things.

JT: Oh, you mean, you just snuck out of your... not out of the camp?

KN: And we better not talk to... should I write that down? But anyway...

JT: You didn't sneak out of the camp, you snuck out of, away from your barracks.

KN: Yeah. Well, whatever it was. But we're supposed to... anyway, you can talk to my brother about that.

JT: You had fun. Well, you were just a young kid, and Eddie was only four years older, so he wasn't... but he was good role model the way you turned out, look at you.

KN: You're right, you're right.

JT: But I wanted you to tell me about what it was like inside the barrack.

KN: Inside the barrack?

JT: Uh-huh, where you lived, your living quarters. There were eight of you, seven of you in one space, one small space?

KN: Well, it didn't seem small. Because it's all divided up with walls.

JT: And was your mom home, inside most of the time at home?

KN: Yeah.

JT: What was your dad doing?

KN: Well, he was, one time, what they called block manager, yeah, he did that. And then summertimes or when apple season came around, they all got on a truck and they all went picking apples.

JT: Did you say he was a block manager?

KN: Yeah.

JT: I didn't know that.

KN: Well, I don't know.

JT: Because I know that my mother was a block manager.

KN: She was? Really.

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JT: Well, I was trying to remember, you were telling me about what you used to do with your brother in camp, besides marbles and tops. Ice skating.

KN: Oh, we'd go hiking out on the field and then we did go ice skating. And then they had an entertainment thing in the center of the, had sumo and stuff like that, judo.

JT: They had tournaments.

KN: Tournament stuff. But that's all it was.

JT: But you were a young boy, so those were the kinds of things young kids would remember.

KN: Theater too that we saw movies once a week on Fridays, Friday night.

JT: Oh my goodness. You had a movie theater?

KN: Yeah. Well, it's a barrack, but they just...

JT: But, I mean, they put up a screen and showed an old movie. Did you have any favorite movies at that time?

KN: They're all cowboys. [Laughs]

JT: I was going to say, they were cowboy and Indian.

KN: They're still my favorite.

JT: They are? So you remember, what cowboy movies do you remember?

KN: Oh, Tom Mix and all that, Mickey Mouse. I can't remember all those.

JT: Well, you know, Mickey Mouse was around then, I think Mickey Mouse just turned... he came out in 1927, so he's older than you are, Mickey Mouse.

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