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BH: And did you, did you and your sisters go back to camp?

KH: Yes, we went back to camp, and when I think back on it, I think Hiroko did a very admirable job because she had to borrow money from her roommates for train fare for three of us to go back. And when we returned, Ish went back to nursing school, and she had to go back to her job, I went back to school.

BH: So you were only there for a few months? Or were you there for just a short period of time?

KH: I finished out the summer in camp, and then went back to school.

BH: And was it different from the time before? Because before you left for camp, Bako had been there. Then you came back to camp, Bako wasn't there. So did that difference really sink in, given that he had just died?

KH: Well, we just went back into the camp routine, going in for mess hall. It was different because we used to play cards almost every evening in our unit, and the fellows would come and play with us, and they were gone.

TI: When you went back, did they have any kind of memorial service?

KH: Yes, they did.

TI: Describe that. What was that like?

KH: It was in the church, so it was like a funeral mass. It was, I don't remember whether it was open to the public. It must have been. Father Tibesar was there then, and he did the services.

TI: Something that I've also seen pictures of, that families that lost a son would have a gold star or something like that. Did your family do anything like that?

KH: Yeah, they had a gold star, but then I remember more the gold star that was put outside the window on the house on Eighteenth Avenue, rather than in camp. You know, in camp, the way the notice was delivered to... did your mother ever talk about it? You know Lily Morinaga Hori, Lily Hori? She was working up at the administration building in camp, and I think... was it your mother? Anyway, the camp, in camp when they got the notice of some, a death in family, it was hand delivered by one of those girls that worked up at administration building, and Lily is the one who brought that notice after work. See, they had to walk home from administration building to our area, and that's quite a distance. But Lily is the one who delivered that letter to Mom and Dad.

TI: Boy, what a difficult thing to have to do.

KH: Yeah, you would think somebody from, would have servicepeople -- you know, now, they have two or three soldiers deliver that message, don't they? They don't deliver by mail.

TI: Yeah, that's why I'm a little surprised that they --

KH: Yeah, I think that was very admirable of Lily.

BH: I think even in World War II, they delivered notes with soldiers, I think even during World War II they had soldiers typically deliver.

KH: Uh-huh.

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