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LH: But you did eventually find out what your father was doing in Lordsburg.

FG: Yeah.

LH: By going through his records. What have you learned about your father's life in Lordsburg from going through his papers and his letters?

FG: There was quite a community there and it was pretty cohesive. And one of the things that I found was a directory of the Hiroshima, people from Hiroshima, that were in Lordsburg and this was written in September of 1942. And there were, to my surprise, there were -- I don't know what the whole number of people, the total number of people, in Lordsburg was, but of them, 215 were from Hiroshima.

LH: So there were 250 men of however many were of these Issei in Lordsburg were from Hiroshima.

FG: Yes.

LH: And...

FG: And then as far as the states were concerned, where they had gone, where they had immigrated to, right, from Japan, it varied from Hawaii to California to I don't know. I don't know about the East Coast, but most of it was on the West Coast. Most of it was California.

LH: So they actually put this directory together just so that everyone in the camp knew who everyone was that was from Hiroshima.

FG: Yeah, right.

LH: So again, the ken.

FG: The kenjin, right. Yeah. It's very strong.

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