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TI: So I want to go back to your family, because you and your wife had a baby at Tule Lake?

WS: Yeah.

TI: So how was it having a baby at Tule Lake? Was that hard to do?

WS: No. Let's see. There was the doctor, doctor from San Francisco area. And I can't remember the doctor's name, but anyway, the doctor was available.

TI: Okay, so the health facilities, the health care was pretty good to have a baby for your wife and child. How about taking care of a baby? Was that hard to do in the barrack or anything like that?

WS: No problem.

TI: At Tule Lake, what was your job at Tule Lake?

WS: [Addressing son off camera] He is the first baby --

TI: No, your daughter was born, right?

WS: Yeah, first daughter, yeah. She was born in Tule Lake. And my son was born in Seattle, weren't you?

TI: Right. And so what was your daughter's name? What's your daughter's name?

WS: The what?

TI: Your daughter, what is her name?

WS: Hiroko Grace.

TI: Now, when you're at Tule Lake, what kind of work did you do at Tule Lake?

WS: At Tule Lake I was in the electrical department and the warehouse.

TI: And what kind of work is that? When you're electrical department, is that like fixing things, or what do you do?

WS: I really don't know what to call it. But anyway, the warehouse job was taking care of the electrical, and the electrical part was also a climber, there was a person that climbs the power pole and all that. And now whenever there's any problem, they'd call in and we'd dispatch the climbers to go out there to check it.

TI: Now were you one of the climbers, too, did you climb?

WS: No, I didn't climb.

TI: So you were more of a dispatcher?

WS: What?

TI: Were you then, were you a dispatcher, or what was your job?

WS: I still can't get that.

TI: What was your job? If you didn't climb, what did you do?

WS: Pencil.

TI: [Laughs] Okay, good.

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