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TI: So I want to go back in terms of, when I think about what you went through as a Block 42 and that whole experience, do you... and I notice you have pictures of the group and you've gotten names, do you ever as a group get together? Do you stay in touch with any of the Block 42 men who went to the CCC?
JT: No. After we came back from camp, very few of 'em came back where they started from. Lot of 'em moved out and went to the city, and a lot of 'em didn't come back to California, they moved out of California. The people that, one of the people that signed the papers, the "loyalty" paper, they moved up to Seattle, they moved up to Washington someplace. In fact, I met her up there on top of the mountain, yeah, on Castle Rock. I didn't recognize her, but...
BT: Oh, on the pilgrimage, yeah.
JT: Yeah. She's a little bit older than I was to begin with. Not big difference, but a couple years. And we was up at Castle Rock. And she had her, I think these were her granddaughters.
BT: Rose? Was it Rose?
JT: Huh?
BT: Rose.
JT: Her name was Mae, and her maiden name was... I knew it before you came. [Laughs]
TI: But have you, other than the pilgrimage, have there been any attempts... I guess the question is, are people starting to hear about the story of the Block 42 group?
JT: Well, you know, I spent several hours over there talking about this, and there was some people that was there, and they were surprised that... I'm sort of withdrawn, sort of conservative, I don't go out and talk about it a lot. But they says, "Well, that was against your nature that you went out there and you talked about this." And this guy that told me, he was probably eight or nine years old when he was there, and he was in that pilgrimage. He listened to what I had to say and what Mori had to say, and he says, "I didn't know things like that even happened."
TI: Yeah, your story is not well-known, and so I think it'd be important for others to learn about this.
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