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AI: So, tell me, do you remember much about that time when... or do you have any memory of December 7, 1941? That was the bombing of Pearl Harbor. You were very young then.

WW: Right.

AI: Do you recall anything?

WW: I have, no, I have no recollection of that at all. The only, I can just vaguely remember when we were evacuated, and maybe I remember more because my parents will tell me that we as kids were all excited because they dressed us up, and we were going for a train ride. So that's about all we knew.

AI: Right. So, and then do you recall anything about the train ride at all?

WW: No, I don't. That I don't.

AI: Where did you go first, when you, when you were first taken from your home in Kent?

WW: First place we went to was Pinedale, and that was in May of 1942.

AI: Once you got to Pinedale, was it fairly warm, or do you recall what the condition was like?

WW: I don't, I don't recall, I just, from hearing from what my parents said, they said it was dusty and hot.

AI: Right, and then you must have stayed there for several months in Pinedale?

WW: We were there, according to what my dad had written, about, just a few months. And then from there we went to Tule Lake.

AI: Another train ride.

WW: Another train ride, yeah. That I don't remember.

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