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DG: Okay. Finally there is some correspondence with Floyd Schmoe about your car.

NS: Yes. My car had been left with some friends and they -- I don't know whether they used it or not, but anyways it was being kept up. And so when we were ready to leave, why, Floyd drove the car over to Minidoka and we left.

DG: Now, there's all through the letters quite constantly, but right here especially, about rationing.

NS: Well, there was rationing at that time for everybody. It wasn't just the Japanese Americans. It was rationing -- I mean, gasoline, sugar, a good many things were rationed. But it depended on the number of people in the family, how much you had. And, of course, we had a big enough family that we could manage with what we had.

DG: So were you excited to get out of camp?

NS: Yes. I felt that by the time the whole year was up, that I had done what I could do and that it was time that we took care of our own family. And since he was ready to start school, that that was where...

DG: This is your oldest son?

NS: (Yes)... we can go back to our normal situation and that I had -- I felt, I guess, that I had done my duty as far as community was concerned.

DG: Okay. Well, thank you for today. We will continue some more next time.

NS: Well, I hope it comes out good.

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