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TI: Let's go to Camp Shelby and talk about when you got to Camp Shelby. What was it like?

SK: Oh, Camp Shelby was a desolate place as I remember, sand, no grass in the company area, maybe pine trees here and there, barracks, and must have been used by the National Guard or something like that. I don't know, but it was an old building, anyway. And the latrine was about a hundred yards away, things like that, and the bathroom, the shower room was another hundred yards or so away and everything is community thing. But being brought up in a plantation community, this was not new to me because during the old, during our time, I remember we had outhouses. I grew up in that kind of situation, and the outhouse was maybe about fifty feet away from the home itself until the plantation decided to -- the houses were all helter-skelter -- until the plantation decided to systematize the homes all lined up so that was okay. And at that time we had regular sewer system, though, not regular toilets, sewer system. There was a water catchment up there and you released the water at a certain time and by trough the water ran down and took our waste away, that kind of situation. So to me, the only uncomfortable thing was I'm sitting next to somebody whom I didn't know and doing my business. That was kind of uncomfortable, but I got used to it. He does the same thing that I (did). [Laughs]

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