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DG: Well, what was it like then to get ready to leave?

AS: The what?

DG: What did you have to do to get ready, in order to, to leave the island? When you got the order that you had to evacuate, what did, what did you and your family do to prepare to leave?

AS: We couldn't do much. You only could take what you could carry. You know, I mean... I don't know. I was young then and I was still goin' to school, so... I can't tell you too much on that part. But the, a lot of people were on our side and a lotta 'em were against us, too, see, so when I got back from the service, I had a friend -- I think he was a good friend -- I didn't think he was my friend, but he was my friend because he wrote me a letter, told me all the names of the double-crossers. Now, that was a good deal, because he was a nice man. But I didn't think too much of him because he was just a, you know, old man and, and he wrote to me and see what happened and... that's why, you know the grange here, Filipino, Japanese, remember that? Well, don't you think that's wrong?

DG: What's wrong? That...

AS: Well, we couldn't join it if...

DG: Oh.

AS: Isn't that wrong?

DG: Yes.

AS: Well, that's just the same thing. See, he, he told us which one was against us. And that was a good thing to me. So when I came back, I come up and shake hands with you, I just said, "Yeah, that's fine." I don't care. I didn't say nothin'. But I got in my inside [points to temple].

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