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Title: Louise Kashino Interview
Narrator: Louise Kashino
Interviewer: Alice Ito
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: March 15, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-klouise-01-0020

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AI: Well, now during this time after you got to Chicago, what kind of relationship did you have with your future husband?

LK: Oh, it was correspondence.

AI: And had, he had entered the army then?

LK: He had volunteered, but he hadn't been called yet. So he spent some time in camp yet. See, before we, before he volunteered, he was working in a farm in Montana, because a lot of people volunteered to go out and they needed the manual labor. So he'd go out whenever he could, just to get out of camp. And so he came back into the camp to volunteer 'cause he wanted to volunteer with his friends at the same time. So he stayed on in camp. I left in June, so he was there a couple of months before he actually went in and he came to see me on furlough and then most of it was correspondence.

AI: And do you recall the last time you saw him before he was sent over to Europe?

LK: Yes, he -- I think it was January he came in for furlough again after he was finished with basic training.

AI: That would have been 1944?

LK: By 19... yeah. And they went overseas in May or June of '44. So it was all letters. And when he came on his furlough in January of '44 we were talking about getting engaged, but then I, I was still only seventeen and just felt like it was, my mother or dad would not approve of it, so we didn't get engaged, but the feeling was there.

AI: Oh, that must have been hard.

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