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DH: How did you keep track of what was going on on Bainbridge while you were in camp?

IN: See, Walt Woodward had a correspondent among the Japanese, and then the correspondent would write to the Review, and Walt Woodward would publish the articles. And then so we used to get the Review from the, in camp.

DH: The Review was delivered to camp so you could kind of find out what was going on on Bainbridge.

IN: That's right.

KN: But for a long time we didn't have much newspaper, did we? We couldn't keep track of lot of things.

DH: They wouldn't let you have them.

KN: I didn't know what it was, but we just weren't in contact very well at some point, but it got better.

IN: Some of us corresponded with people here on the island.

KN: Well, in fact, in the beginning were they not censored?

IN: I can't remember.

KN: Yeah, crossed off with a dark marking pencil, different, whatever they thought was not supposed to be written in the letter.

DH: Anything else from, any other memories you have from that time period before you came back to the island, the camp, and the ranch?

KN: Well, it was a busy time, very busy time. So the time didn't really drag very much, but I knew I was coming home eventually so that kind of saved me because if I had thought that this is it, I don't know what would have happened. But I kept thinking one day we're going back. One day we're going back so that just kind of kept me going.

DH: Anything you want to add, Sam?

IN: Well, during the war years, actually I moved sixteen times from camp, to working in areas, to different working areas, back to camp, and so on and so forth. Sixteen times is how many times I moved.

DH: That's a lot of moving.

KN: But then luckily we didn't have house full of furniture, right? [Laughs]

IN: No.

DH: True.

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