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MN: Well, we'll get to that. So let me go back. So from Camp Robinson, you went to Leonard Wood?

TN: Leonard Wood.

MN: Okay. And were you at Leonard Wood when you heard the United States government was gonna put Japanese Americans into camp? Where were you? Where were you when the government issued evacuation orders?

TN: Oh. That was, must be Leonard Wood. But I didn't pay attention to that --

MN: So you had no feelings?

TN: -- evacuation. Because I have no family, only brother, family, that's about all, cousin.

MN: But where did your brother go to? What camp?

TN: All the Bay Area, they went to Tule Lake, I think. And my cousin, Modesto, they went to Colorado.

MN: To Granada, Amache?

TN: Amache, my cousin.

MN: You said at Camp Leonard Wood, there was a hunger strike.

TN: Camp Leonard Wood? No. Labor battalion, they went hunger strike. And maybe five guys. Then Mr. Oyama's, he knows, DB Boy, Oyama-san, wife's brother, he went to hunger strike on Leonard Wood.

MN: Do you know why they went on a hunger strike?

TN: No, I don't.

MN: How long was the hunger strike?

TN: I think four or five days. We are cooking, but they come, shut down, they don't eat.

MN: What happened to them? Were they court martialed?

TN: I don't think so. But they are in the labor battalion, so they don't need a court martial or anything. But the one person who have a fight, got in, he was in Leavenworth. I forgot his name, but I hear he's there, too.

MN: So one of the Nisei soldiers got into a fight and was sent to Leavenworth?

TN: Because he has a court martial. Because he break the beer bottle and trying to threat. So it's a serious case.

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