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BK: But during that time, your brothers, did they... did they volunteer for the service at that time?

MH: Yes.

BK: From Minidoka?

MH: Yes, two of my brothers did.

BK: Two. Can you describe some of the discussion or some of the feelings that they had shared, or shared with parents at that time?

MH: I know, when they came through, I knew my brothers would already go, because my other brother was already in. Ak, the older one, would have liked to gone, but my folks would rather he didn't, so he waited and went in later. But Ted and Ken had gone to all these meetings, and they came home one day and said that they were gonna volunteer. And Ted was really scared, 'cause he was nineteen. But Mother and Dad said that, "This is your country. You have to do what you should do or you think you should do." So in our family, we were lucky, there was never any, it was never any choice between your parents and yourself. You just did what you thought you wanted to do. And by luck, they both went, one went to the infantry and one went to field artillery. In fact, the one that was at the field artillery was with my husband, so... he knew him from school, but they were in the same outfit, so that worked out fine. They both went over, they went through the war, they both came home, so...

BK: Well, that's...

MH: Yes.

BK: That's a positive thing.

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