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DG: You really saw a cross-section of the community.

KS: Yes, we did.

DG: What were the, what were the conversations and attitudes?

KS: Uh...

TS: You mean of the (locals)?

DG: Among the... Yeah, what did you greet each other with, was there worry about the war or was there, you know, where to go, or what were they doing?

KS: Most of them were busy trying to find jobs and hopefully waiting for the day that everybody could return to the West coast, because there was conversation then that eventually the military order will be lifted and that people can return to the West coast. I think there was talk of that when Germany fell. So that would be in early '45 that people could go back to the West coast. Most people were working hard and saving their money for when they could go back to the West coast. Even when we first got there, the conversation of most people was in finding a job, making things work out. So, they, they were not discouraged. I can't think of a single person that was discouraged.

DG: So no one was feeling that they were discriminated and down or anything like that?

KS: No, I don't think so.

DG: They were thinking more in terms of getting on with life?

KS: On with life and, and they, any of them (that) got out of camp and worked some place and...

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