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TI: So now I'm going to bring you to Tule Lake.

TN: Yeah, Tule Lake, yeah.

TI: And one of the jobs you had at Tule Lake was working at the legal aid office.

TN: Yes.

TI: Can you explain to me how you got that job?

TN: Well, I was out in the seasonal leave from Tule Lake, and I came back after the season was over, and my brother was in Tule Lake. And he knew all the people in the project director's office and the project attorney's office, and they were looking for somebody in the legal aid office. Because after the segregation, most of the personnel left Tule Lake and went to other camps. And I had a little legal background by then, I was working in an attorney's office, Mr. Takeda's office in Sacramento. And I interviewed with Mr. Silverthorn, he was the project attorney. He was attorney for the WRA, and he gave me an interview. And I had some little accounting background, so they asked me to prepare income tax returns, things like that, for the attorneys. So I received a nineteen dollar a month job. [Laughs]

TI: And so in this job -- and let me kind of recap a few things. So you were on seasonal leave, and so prior to that, you were first sent to Tule Lake, and then you took a seasonal leave. And then when you came back, this was after Tule Lake had become a segregation camp.

TN: Yeah, after segregation.

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