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AI: You know, speaking of what things that you were not allowed to have, and not allowed to do, I was wondering... here you are, you're getting very well-organized, you have all these advisors involved, and you have many groups of these younger girls in the Girl Reserves groups, I was wondering if any questions ever came up about, about their, their place or their future. That here you are, you're in this camp in the desert in the middle of nowhere, not sure what's going to happen next, and the war is going on outside, did you ever have discussions, either with the other adults and the advisors, or even with some of the kids about what is future...

EH: (Yes), one of the things that I think we had built discussions around was, "What do you hope will happen?" What, what would, what do you think might happen? And what would you like to, to do when you, when you get out of... but, you know, when you're in that camp, and you're in high school, in your senior year, you might begin thinking of college. But beyond that, before that, you have no way of knowing what you could expect. And it certainly depended on the dictates of your parents. A lot of parents didn't want their daughters outside camp, because they didn't feel that it was safe. But once you got out of camp, at eighteen, nineteen, when you left camp, I think, I don't know of anybody that had a scary or a threatening experience.

AI: But at the time, there were fears.

EH: (Yes). Well, there were fears among, among Isseis. I never, because I had, for one thing, (...) gone to that YW conference, and there must have been, I have pictures of that, there were, there was probably five or six from Minidoka.

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