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AI: So, it's April 3, 2003. We're continuing our interview with Dr. Ruby Inouye. And before the break you were just starting to tell us about being in Puyallup and that while you were there that you started volunteering at the first aid station.

RI: Uh-huh.

AI: So I was wondering if you could describe that for us a little bit, what kind of things you saw at that, at the aid station?

RI: Oh, whatever I could remember which isn't very much, but it seemed as though it was sorta like a little booth. And we took care of cuts and bruises. It didn't seem as though we had real big emergencies. I don't remember any. Of course, I was not even a medical student or anything, I was just helping out, maybe running around, doing errands or what. But of course I wasn't trained for anything. And in those days we didn't have CPR or -- so I don't know what, but --

DG: How many of you were there?

RI: I think there was a nurse. I remember one nurse. Was a, was it one of the Tanabe, let's see. I definitely know who it was, but it's, it's one of the, let's see... not Kinoshita. One of the Kinoshita girls is married to her... oh, something like that. I think, I'm not, I'm not really sure but I know she was very nice and very helpful but because of her being a nurse she probably was the manager, and maybe she was showing me some things because, you know, I didn't have any experience.

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