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DG: Okay, back to the JACL conference, so you found out you couldn't do anything, so what were you talking about on the way home?

TS: Very little.

DG: What did you think you had to do?

TS: All we did was do a little cussing! [Laughs]

KS: They had to make plans for getting rid of their lease that they were... most of them had farms in lease and they had farms...

TS: We were told that you'd be guilty of sabotage if you didn't put your crops in, so we put in our crops, but it was kind of lucky in a way, because when the Filipinos bought our farm equipment and crops, when my dad got out he had several thousand dollars in his checking account.

DG: So you started selling your stuff.

TS: Yeah, well, it was sold in one sale, the truck, crops and equipment.

DG: Car?

TS Truck and car, yeah. But, it was... you know, in those days you could buy a Buick for eight or nine hundred dollars, so he got several thousand bucks for it -- it was not bad. If we didn't have our crops in, we had hardly anything to sell.

DG: So you got married and then what did you do?

KS: I worked until the last possible day.

TS: Then we got married, then you moved in.

KS: Yes, and then I... we lived with his mother and two sisters and a couple of brothers.

DG: Until the evacuation?

TS: Until the farm crops...

KS: Were sold.

TS: Were sold. Then we moved into the residence of my friend, Kinoshita, and we stayed there for about a month.

KS: Just about, not quite a month. It was really two weeks. I think it was the first of March, no, no, no, first of April or May. I know we lived in your house. When you turn over a crop, it was the first of the month and I must have turned the crops over at the first of May. We were evacuated on the fifteenth of May, so it was two weeks where we literally didn't have any place to live, and we stayed with the Kinoshitas. Can you imagine there were two, four, there were five of us in two bedrooms in the Kinoshita's house?

TS: Besides the Kinoshitas.

DG: You obviously didn't have a honeymoon or anything?!

KS: We went to Tacoma for two days! [Laughs] But it sort of prepared us for camp living! [Laughs]

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