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BF: And your children were how old at this time?

MH: Young, still kindergarten so Kumi was five, four and... five, four, five, three, and just was born, Kumi was.

BF: Toddlers.

DG: So were you, did you have formula for the baby?

MH: They didn't have milk, nothing.

DG: So how did you feed?

MH: I took some can of what they call canned milk, powered milk.

DG: And you had baby bottles?

MH: We took everything.

DG: You took the bottles? And how did you clean them?

MH: Just wash it.

DG: Uh-huh. And so did your family get sick from...

MH: My husband, big man, so over two hundred pound, but the first two weeks, thirty pounds he lost.

BF: Oh, my goodness. He lost thirty pounds in two weeks?

DG: Because he was sick or because the food was not good, or...

MH: Food? It isn't called food because come over to eat so goes there. Today is curry rice or something. Onion is big as, like that and then carrots, one. That's all. And then salt little bit and then curry. Couldn't eat.

DG: Did they put it on rice?

MH: Half boiled, the rice, because boil the rice, throw the old water because of -- what they call? Something in it -- so after warm up so can't eat, no taste, and then all Nihonjin no hone ga aru.

DG: Oh, right, a core in the rice. It wasn't cooked through. Were you aware of the -- was there a riot or uprising because of that at Santa Anita?

MH: What they call? [Laughs]

DG: They refused to...

MH: But anyway we doctors, nurses, separate. And then so we could take hot plate. So we can do something.

DG: You did, you cooked yourself some.

MH: Some.

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