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HM: Do you remember what the, the climate was during the war on the island, or were you away at that time?

HC: During the evacuation?

HM: During the evacuation.

HC: I was on the island. I was working at the shipyard by then. I had started working out of high school for the Austin Company, which built naval insulations among which was the naval radio station at Fort Ord, so, and then somebody said there was more money down at the shipyard, so I switched and stayed there until I went in the navy. It was, it was a strange thing, I had tried doing lists because I thought that was the thing to do, but they hadn't completed enough boot camps to handle everybody, so I had to wait 'til I got drafted, and I was able to be drafted into the navy. I remember going on a bus to Spokane, went through Moses Lake and I had heard that the Koba boys were there, but there was no way I could get to see them.

HM: What was the climate like on the island in the general, general population, and did the Woodwards make a difference or have an influence on how people thought?

HC: Oh yeah. Definite, definite... we would get, he would print stories about the nudist. What was his name?

HM: Skyler?

HC: Yeah. Just infuriated me, but Paul Ohtaki did a great job of writing back about events in the camp. I'm sorry he just passed away. I saw him last year when he was up here.

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