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AI: Well it sounds like there was so much activity there right in the '30s, and right up, leading up to the war. And then we come to 1941, and could you tell me a little bit about happened to you that year? Was it shortly before you were a young man?

JM: (...) After I got out of school, I tried to farm a little bit where I was right now -- well at that time it was where 405 and Main Street meet. Right in that area, right now I think the Doubletree Inn stands where we used to have a pigpen down there one time. But anyway, then our family had a chance to move to Redmond, yeah, I think Redmond. A family, Japanese family was, they were another family that was going to Japan, and they wanted to get rid of the farm, so they went over. And that was in 1940, I think. And I stayed around, tried to kind of straighten out whatever I had in Bellevue, and then the war broke out. So that was the end of that.

While I was in Bellevue, between that time I was to move up to Redmond, I worked for awhile at the Midlakes Feed and Fuel, and I was driving a truck for the feed company. I guess the union folks seen me in Seattle, and they told the Midlakes Feed and Fuel men to get rid of me. [Laughs] So I had to quit. And then, shortly after that, why, the war broke out and... and I don't know, I just, my mind was a blank, I didn't know what to do, what was gonna happen to me when I heard about this war.

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