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AI: So, in the meantime then, the rest of you then had to pack up and leave Tule Lake and get on another train and go to Minidoka.

BS: Uh-huh.

AI: So tell me about that then, going to Minidoka and arriving there.

BS: Ah, I don't remember. I don't even remember the train ride or anything like I remember the one between Pinedale and Tule Lake. I don't...

AI: Kind of a blank.

BS: Uh-huh.

AI: So, what's the first thing you remember about Minidoka after getting there, your impression of that place? Did it seem similar to Tule Lake or different?

BS: Yeah, because, well, I don't know what time of year it was but it was hot and dusty and then we, and we had two rooms again. And I think the barrack, I'm not sure if the barrack was longer because we had two, four, there were six, six rooms to a barrack and some of our friends, you know, from Oregon, from Hood River and Portland area, my parents knew some of the people there.

AI: So they were, it was similar, probably, to your father that they had decided they also were hoping to return to Oregon so they also requested Minidoka?

BS: Probably, because a lot of them went to Heart Mountain. Like our closest neighbors, the Nishimotos, they were sent to Heart Mountain.

AI: But there were still a few people that you knew then, at Minidoka?

BS: Yes. Yes.

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