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AI: So can you tell me about evacuation and where you were taken?

KK: Yeah. We were taken to the -- well, we got on a train at the train depot and were taken to Tulare, California, which is near Fresno. And we lived in -- they had these horse stalls and we lived in one of those stalls, and my sister had hay fever and she was sneezing all the time. But it was no privacy there and hot.

AI: About what months were you there in Tulare?

KK: We were in the summer month. We are evacuated in May and so it was through summer month and then until, I think, it was about the fall, fall that we were moved to Gila River, Arizona.

AI: What's one of your lasting memories of Gila River?

KK: Oh, that camp was dusty and people were getting sick and dying from what they call valley fever, but all in all it was a pretty good camp. It was hot and dusty, but as a young kid I was having fun playing baseball and all that stuff.

AI: So you would have been about sixteen at that point?

KK: Yeah, sixteen.

AI: ...in Gila.

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