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DG: So moving on to Minidoka, how did you go?

NS: We went by train, we were all put onto the trains. And then we went across to Minidoka and the barracks were a little bit better there. At least -- it was just open field more than anything else -- and the barracks were bare, very dusty, but we swept the dust off and put up our beds and our things, put our things in. And, of course, he went to the hospital. Our barracks were close to the hospital so that he walked to and from.

DG: So you had been to Omaha so you knew what dry climate looked like.

NS: Oh, yes.

DG: So that was not surprising.

NS: No.

DG: But it was for a lot of the residents from here, right? They had never been out of Seattle.

NS: I imagine, yes. Yes, there weren't any green trees and it was all just bare flat land with barracks in rows all the way. Then these barracks were just one right after the other. And some of the barracks didn't have walls going all the way to the top so you heard your neighbors talking or quarreling or everything else. [Laughs] Lot of quarreling going on because people weren't very happy.

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