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BN: And then started having your older siblings.

EO: Yeah, I have two older brothers, myself and a younger sister.

BN: And you all grew up in Pasadena?

EO: Pasadena. My father bought a market on Pasadena Avenue and we all grew up there. When the war broke out my oldest brother was up in Berkeley, my younger brother was at PCC, I was at PCC, and my sister was at, I think, McKinley junior high school.

BN: How much older were your brothers?

EO: Well, Bill, we were born two years apart, so he was four years older than me. And my next brother was two years older than me, and then my sister two years younger.

BN: So all two years.

EO: Two years apart.

BN: What schools did you go to in Pasadena? Elementary, middle school.

EO: Well, let's see. I went to Lincoln grammar school, McKinley junior high school. Pasadena had a junior high school system, so you graduated junior high at tenth, and then you start eleventh grade in junior college. And I was in junior college when war broke out.

BN: So it was called junior college, but it was sort of like high school?

EO: It was called PJC (Pasadena Junior College).

BN: But it was really high school, it was eleventh and twelfth?

EO: Actually, compared to other schools, it was high school.

BN: But it was called junior college?

EO: Yeah.

BN: Okay.

EO: So since I graduated high school in camp, it was twelfth grade, yeah.

BN: Right, right.

EO: I finished (twelfth grade) in camp.

BN: You went to junior college first, then you graduated high school.

EO: [Laughs] In camp.

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