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FK: But what do you remember about that day? When they brought you to that Eagledale site and stuff, what do you remember about that day?

SM: You mean...

FK: When you left the island?

SM: Getting on the ferry, you mean?

FK: Yeah, yeah.

SM: No, I don't remember too much about it. Nobody, no friends of the family were down there to bid us goodbye or anything. No, I don't remember too much about it. I remember going into Seattle there, walking through the old waiting room there, everybody, all the people from Seattle were down there, all the friends, you know. You kind of walked down the stairs or something, and the old Pullman was right under that viaduct, the pedestrian overpass from the ferry terminal. And that was it.

FK: Do you remember anything about the soldiers that were there, that came to the island?

SM: Yeah.

FK: What do you remember about it?

SM: They were, they rode with us all the way down, I guess. They were a pretty nice bunch of guys, it seemed like. Everybody's having a little chat with 'em. I don't know where all these soldiers were from, but anyway, we got off the train, and I don't know what... Barslow? I thought it was Barslow. Anyway, we got on the bus there, anyway, and took us into Manzanar. That was kind of depressing, you know. [Laughs] Whole desert out there, that first time all of us ever seen a desert. About the first day there, they had a pretty good windstorm. All that sand coming into your room, everybody's got the diarrhea, that was kind of a low point, I guess.

FK: Was the diarrhea from the food then, or what?

SM: Huh?

FK: Was the diarrhea from the food?

SM: Yeah, I guess so. Probably different water.

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