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Title: Fumiko Hayashida Interview
Narrator: Fumiko Hayashida
Interviewers: Lori Hoshino (primary), Alice Ito (secondary)
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington
Date: March 16, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-hfumiko-01-0017

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LH: So your two households packed up in the army truck and headed down towards the ferry dock. Can you recall that, the scene at the ferry dock for me?

FH: Oh yes. We see all our friends. Everybody looking sad and, oh, they're all bunched up in family.

LH: When did they issue the tags that were attached to the clothes? Was that at the ferry dock?

FH: No, no, no. My friend, you know they go to the meetings, and guess they got it then. That was there.

LH: Did you feel like it was an organized group at the ferry dock?

FH: I think so. Yes, uh-huh.

LH: Do you feel that it was under control because -- or, the people organizing this evacuation had it well under control?

FH: Uh-huh, I think so. Maybe now, I think those days Niseis, and, I mean Isseis especially, they were real orderly, we didn't, we weren't allowed to go... I know, like my husband, the menfolks I guess were more hurt than we were because we just tagged along, I think.

LH: In what way were they, the men hurt?

FH: Well, they had more responsibility. Feel sorry for them.

LH: And do you recall seeing the military police, the MPs at the dock?

FH: What?

LH: Do you recall seeing the military police at the dock?

FH: Oh yeah.

LH: The soldiers?

FH: They had guns with the spears. Uh-huh. Some like, we were busy with children, but some of those older children they would talk to them. They were polite. Then they all went on the train with us and all the way to Manzanar.

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