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DG: And then well, of course, you didn't start to do this right away. So right after Pearl Harbor you maintained your business a little bit or when did you have to leave? Let's move back. When did you hear about being interned and having to take care of business and things?

RM: Gosh, let's see. We were put in camp when? '42?

DG: Right. But Pearl Harbor happened in December and the notice for the internment didn't come out until February. So during that time...

RM: Well, I think it was sometime close to May, I think it was anyway.

DG: That you actually left?

RM: Yeah, May or June.

DG: So I want to know some of the things that was going on during that time that you were getting ready and having to decide what to do 'cause you would have had a huge business. You had cranberries and oysters.

RM: Yeah, so anyway they were posting that notice that all Japanese had to leave. They even posted some on our plant.

DG: Did you leave it there?

RM: Yeah, I just laughed at them and so anyway...

DG: Who posted the notices?

RM: I don't know. Some -- I guess, they were hired to do that.

DG: The army people?

RM: I forgot just whether it was the army people or who it was, but anyway...

DG: So you just read it and laughed at it.

RM: Yeah, they were posting those all around, and then they posted some on our plant there.

DG: On your plant itself?

RM: And we kind of laughed at them.

DG: Well, were people excited around you? I mean did they...

RM: No, they kind of felt it was funny themselves too.

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