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MN: Now, there was a riot at Santa Anita. Do you remember that?

TI: Yes.

MN: What do you remember of the riot?

TI: Well, I remember that the soldiers on a little tank with a machine gun manned on the top, went up and down the streets, and we all had to stay in our barracks.

MN: So you weren't there out there throwing rocks at them.

TI: No, no.

MN: What did they tell you that, why the riot started?

TI: No.

MN: They didn't tell you. And I've heard it's because of this Korean (...)?

TI: He was our steward, and after the riot, (...) I never saw him again.

MN: I heard he was beaten up pretty badly.

TI: Oh, really? I don't know.

MN: That's what several people have told me.

TI: I never saw him again.

MN: When this riot happened, how did you feel?

TI: Well, I heard, I just heard that, well, the aftermath, I know two men that were in our mess hall. They never came back, so I suspect that those two were selling our food on the black market, and that's why we had pork and beans three times a day.

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