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TI: So let's talk a little bit about Robert and Edison. Why were they popular? What were they like?

KK: Well, they're both really friendly fellows, and they like to do things. And Robert was kind of a leader of groups and all, and a writer and, I don't know, he just got along with people. Edison liked to cook, and he and these girls were having this thing about who could cook the better cake and stuff, and then he taught them how to do some cooking that they didn't know. And so this group of ladies, girls, would meet with Edison at one of their houses, or at our place, and cook, and he got along with them. And then at school, I guess he was popular, and...

TI: 'Cause I think he, I went through the Crystal City yearbook, and Edison, I think, was the class president.

KK: Right, yeah.

TI: So he was pretty popular.

KK: He was popular, yeah.

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TI: So we were talking when we last, before we left, we were talking a little bit about your brother Edison, but before we talk more about him, I want to go back to the camp and just how it was operated. You mentioned it was sort of "Japanesey," the way it was run. and, which kind of makes sense to me because, you know, here were, most of the men were planning to go back to Japan, and they probably wanted, in some ways, to prepare people to go back to Japan.

KK: Yes.

TI: I'm curious if you could recall how it was structured. Was there kind of a hierarchy, or how was authority or order maintained in camp, in terms of people wanting it a certain way?

KK: I'm not, I can't tell you anything about that. I just know that that's the way it was, you know. I just had that, because we were not Buddhist and we didn't really go into the Buddhist group, we kind of stayed out. We were kind of different.

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