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GS: Then in 1943 or '44, you were relocated to Minidoka. It was late '43?

TS: Yeah, right.

GS: Do you remember how you got up from Manzanar to Minidoka?

TS: Well, by train.

GS: And what was the camp like at Minidoka when you arrived?

TS: Well, Minidoka was more, you might say, very pleasant for me, because I knew lot of people there from Seattle that was interned there.

GS: So you were and the family were kind of latecomers to Minidoka?

TS: Yeah, that's right.

GS: And your second son was born, myself, was born there in February.

TS: That's right, yeah.

GS: What did you do at the camp? What were your duties in Minidoka?

TS: I was working in a carpenter shop making things... when they needed some benches or table, we used to make those.

GS: And there were some stories that the local farmers needed help harvesting sugar beets and potatoes. Did you participate in that?

TS: No, I didn't. I wasn't interested in farming, so I didn't go. I found a job, a construction company in Twin Falls. They needed labor, so I worked for them.

GS: So you were able to leave Minidoka, the camp, during the day to go work at your job and then you had to come back at night.

TS: Yeah, I used to go week at a time, and come back at the weekend.

GS: And were there soldiers that escorted you there?

TS: No, they just take a bus and get out to Twin Falls and then, you know.

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