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Title: James "Turk" Suzuki Interview
Narrator: James "Turk" Suzuki
Interviewer: Tom Ikeda
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Date: November 7, 2007
Densho ID: denshovh-sjames_2-01-0013

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TI: So let's go back to Puyallup, so your family now goes to the Puyallup Assembly Center. Tell me what Puyallup was like for you.

JS: Well, of course, we were still quite young. I was eighteen, though, and once you get your family settled in the barracks or whatever, then you have your friends. And so there's always getting together with them and playing ball or playing cards or whatever. So it wasn't totally miserable; you had your good times as well.

TI: And so who would you hang out with? Kind of the same people, or would you kind of explore different areas and different groups? Give me a sense of the day, the daily life.

JS: Well, well, you kind of hang, hung around with the old friends that you knew, but you met new people also. So it was kind of an expanding experience, I guess.

TI: And then what would your mother do on a daily basis?

JS: I don't know, because we were out mostly with the, the younger people, so we'd come home at night, of course, and sleep with the family.

TI: And is that the same with your siblings, they would do the same thing?

JS: Yeah.

TI: They would go out with their friends?

JS: Sure.

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