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LH: Do you recall any description of what it looked like when you got to the bus?

MS: Oh, well, all I remember is that one morning we were told to get ready and get our things and we were supposed to all meet at this bus stop and then I was startled because there was so many other of my friends were there, too. And oh, this is going to be fun. And we got in the bus and I remember -- see, bus rides were fun for me 'cause I didn't have those things too often, so the only thing, the only thing that's really foreboding about it as I recall is that there were always uniformed soldiers around us. And I wondered about that because that hadn't occurred either, but I just thought, well...

LH: Do you recall, were they armed?

MS: Yes, yeah. All the soldiers we saw were armed. Anyway, we got on the bus and then we all went to a point where -- we didn't go straight to Puyallup, the assembly center. We were then dropped off at another point where a larger group of us were there by then. And then we were all tagged with tags, that told us our family and things like that and information so that if any of us got lost, if families got lost, they could find each other, I guess. And at that time, I believe they must have already assigned the areas, the areas A, B, C that I recall in Puyallup, that we were assigned to Area B.

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