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JM: Before the war, when they started to draft people, why, some of the fellas, well a few people were drafted first, and then my number came up and I was drafted.

AI: And that was before the war.

JM: That was before the war. But between the time that I was to report for duty, the war had broke out. Well, that put me in another class again. I was 1-A one, and this was 4-, 4-something, "enemy alien." So I had to go to camp and of course I was in this Seinenkai so everybody give me a send-off, because I had my date to report for duty. Well, the war broke out, and I changed my classification, and left me with a -- [laughs] -- gave me a send-off, so I didn't know what to do but I went with the rest of the Bellevue people. Got on a train, and I think it was Juanita, I don't remember exactly the spot, do you?

TI: I think it was at the Kirkland station, right below the railroad tracks?

JM: It was some station and, we all got on. And the soldiers were there, they had rifles and everything. And we could only carry a certain amount, and they put us in the train and we went south, pulled all the blinds. I went right by my farm, the trestle --

TI: Remember, I think they were all old World War I --

JM: Yeah.

TI: -- passenger coaches. They were all rusty and dirty, and...

JM: Oh they were cattle cars, I guess.

TI: And they had MPs on every car, at both ends.

JM: But we didn't know where we were going.

TH: Yeah.

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