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Title: Mutsu Homma Interview
Narrator: Mutsu Homma
Interviewers: Dee Goto (primary), Becky Fukuda (secondary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: August 27, 1997
Densho ID: denshovh-hmutsu-01-0027

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DG: And then you're, so living there in Santa Anita then, tell us a little bit more about your husband's situation.

MH: My husband started dental, three thousand people line up, only one doctor and one nurse. And then 104 degrees outside and then little children and old ladies all fell.

DG: From the heat.

MH: Sunstroke.

DG: Sunstroke, right, as they were standing in line. Santa Anita was one of the biggest assembly centers. I think at one time they said there were like eighteen thousand people there.

MH: Yes.

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