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TI: I want to actually go back and touch on one other topic I forgot about. So when you were in camp, you mentioned earlier that your father died in Heart Mountain.

JH: Right.

TI: And so Heart Mountain is another, another camp in Wyoming.

JH: Right.

TI: And you said you went to the --

JH: Yeah, we took a train.

TI: And so this was from Arkansas you did this?

JH: Yeah.

TI: And so your mother, you, and your --

JH: No, my mother and I. My sisters stayed in camp.

TI: Okay.

JH: So I remember we were going to, the town was called Denver. Denver, Wyoming, okay. So our suitcases went to Denver, Colorado, so when we got to Wyoming, Heart Mountain, we had no other clothes except for what we were wearing, and it was June and it was snowing. So friends of my father lent us clothes so that, and I remember them, one of the men saying in Japanese that, "She looks just like Jack." [Laughs] We did look very much alike.

TI: So you, so you had a resemblance to your father.

JH: Right.

TI: And from that service, what did you learn, the friends, what did you learn about your father?

JH: Not that much.

TI: And so during the service didn't people, did people talk about your father?

JH: They probably did.

TI: 'Cause you said one thing is that you found out that you look like --

JH: Yes, but this was prior to the service, right? I don't remember the service at all. Maybe it was, maybe it was a Buddhist ceremony. So that, I would've been, what, maybe I was nine, nine years old.

TI: Okay. Any other memories of Heart Mountain?

JH: No. You know, we went back there, though, recently, and they have a memorial there. And we put money in the, they have a space for you to deposit contributions, but my daughter went there last year, and they're building some, and they're supposedly, I think it's this year, they're having some kind of big ceremony.

TI: Yeah, in August they're gonna do the interpretive center opening, grand opening.

JH: That's right. Yes, yes. So that's kind of nice. We tried to find out what happened to my father's remains, and my sister did some research and she said that they thought, they weren't sure, but whoever she talked to, they thought that the sister had taken the, my father's remains. But they didn't have a name or anything.

TI: So this was your father's sister.

JH: Right, yes. 'Cause, well, my sister thought, well, it might be nice to know where our father is buried, but she couldn't find out anything.

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