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DG: What did you think when you went to Tule Lake or got there?

RM: What kind of place? Well, I didn't -- I don't know just exactly what feelings I had there. I knew it wasn't right, but...

DG: How long did you think you'd be gone?

RM: Huh?

DG: How long did you think you'd be gone?

RM: Well, we weren't sure. I mean...

DG: By this time had you heard any news about the war with Japan?

RM: Well, yeah. Anyway, in Portland why we heard that Pearl Harbor was attacked.

DG: But since then, you know, by the time -- Pearl Harbor was December and by the time you left was May. In between there, had you heard any reports about the war and whether Japan was doing pretty well, I guess, at one time.

RM: Yeah, well, I just forgot.

DG: So when you got to Tule Lake and you had to live in the barracks, who all went with you of your family?

RM: Well, let's see. That would have been in, that's '42 and...

DG: Your mother and your father?

RM: My father and mother, yeah. And I forgot whether I was -- '42. Let's see.

DG: Your sister?

RM: Yeah. Well, let's see. One of my -- I forgot about my sister. I think she, they left or had left the area.

DG: Oh, because her husband had been taken away early.

RM: I think so, yeah.

DG: Your older sister.

RM: Yeah, I think so.

DG: Okay. In Tule Lake then was your sister Jane with you?

RM: No, I think they -- Jane and Nish Kumagai...

DG: Were already married also?

RM: I think they left ahead. I'm not sure. I can't remember.

DG: Okay.

RM: I think they left on their own.

DG: So it was just you and your mother and father.

RM: Yeah, parents.

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