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PW: So you had told me that your father went to Chicago between camp and sometime after the war. What happened?

HS: I don't know what prompted him to go, but as I said, he was a block manager and things were going fine with him. I don't know what prompted him to go, whether this offer came to people in the camp or whether he sought out something. What it was was that it was an electrical school where he could find out about becoming an electrician. Now, whether he did that to become an electrician in the camp or whether it was just a, he just wanted to know so that when he went back home he could take care of his own farm, but he did go to electrical school. And during that time it was nice because things were getting looser as he was allowed to get out of camp for that time. And then my mother and my two sisters even got to go and visit him in Chicago. And I don't know the length of time they were there, but they got to spend some time with Dad in Chicago. And I was really jealous because, of course, I had to stay home in camp. But yeah, that was something that he was able to do, and my sisters were able to do during the time we were in camp. So it had to be anywhere before 1945 when he left, so it was probably '44, sometime in maybe 1944 or early '45.

PW: So he went and was probably gone how long, do you think? A year?

HS: I don't think it was that long, but I don't recall when he went, and I don't recall him leaving and even coming back. So I would guess that at the most, it would have been... at the most it would have been a year and probably less.

PW: But then he came back and then you guys moved back to California together.

HS: Yes.

PW: I see.

HS: We did. We came back together with my grandparents, too.

PW: All right, just wanted to cover that story.

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