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MN: Now, you mentioned that just before the war ended, you were, like, the prison camp was preparing room for more Nisei draft resisters.

HY: Yeah, from Poston. Over two hundred was gonna come. But since the war ended, so they only paid a dollar fine and that was it. Yeah, they had the place, Bill was saying they had it all ready for them to come, but they never came 'cause the war ended.

MN: So you said they had it ready, but, so did they have to build another barrack?

HY: No, no, no. They, those, I guess they didn't take the other people from, you know, those conscientious objectors and those crooks and all that. So they had a, I think in our barrack, B Barrack, they had it open, yeah.

MN: So in prison, you wore the blue uniform. And so when it was time to leave prison, what did you wear?

HY: Oh, they gave us a outfit from shoe, you know, from foot to head, see. One of those gunnysack suits, you know, they're not worth a darn. And the shoes, heck, they look like a cardboard sole. Then they give you twenty bucks. [Laughs] And the bus fare.

MN: So when you left prison, did you leave with another draft resister?

HY: Yeah, yeah. No, no, he wasn't a draft resister, he was a, he was a thief. He got in, it was a robbery. He got off at Tucson and took off.

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