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TI: Okay, so let's go to Heart Mountain. So slow train to Heart Mountain... what are your first impressions of Heart Mountain when you get there?

HN: Well, before we got to Heart Mountain the train was traveling slowly. When we got to Salt Lake, there were people, Japanese American people from Salt Lake -- I don't know how they got, knew that we were coming in -- but there were a bunch of Japanese American from Salt Lake there, waving at us and throwing us food and so forth. We, the train slowed down at the station, and I remember that.

TI: And what did you think when you saw Japanese Americans waving and throwing food?

HN: I said, "How come these guys are, you know, not on the train?" [Laughs] And then we moved on into Wyoming, and then when the train slowed down, I don't know how, but this Japanese family who worked for the railroad company, the wife came. She was quite old, but she was waving. And I remember that. I remember the family. I forgot their name, but I learned later on in my life, when I was in the Air Force, I met the son of the family who was a lawyer working for the U.S. government. I forgot the name, but I mentioned and he said, "That must have been my mother."

TI: Again you're probably thinking, "So why are they out and we have to go in?"

HN: Yeah.

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