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FK: So do you remember when the soldiers came and posted the notice from, on March 24th, and what you were thinking at that time?

GN: No, I didn't.

FK: You don't remember.

GN: I can remember... I don't even remember getting on the armored truck when they rounded us up, but I can remember walking up to, walking to the ferry, going up the stairs, I can remember that.

FK: The stairs on the ferry?

GN: And then my -- I didn't know this, but my dad was up in the upper deck all along. And he was, as we departed, he had tears in his eyes. The Japanese, they don't show the emotions. And didn't think, I think he didn't... would see Bainbridge again, although he was an alien, 'cause this is where, this is where he raised his family and business. But they never did go back to Japan.

FK: Do you remember being on the ferry as it left or any of those things, or being on the train?

GN: I can remember getting on the ferry, and getting off at Coleman dock, and then there was a Pullman train. And we got on the Pullman train, and there was a couple of underclassmen, as we departed, running alongside the train. And that, that kid was Rich Barr, and he fought in the Pacific. And he came back and he says us guys are, "different than the guys I fought against." That's the kind of people we had on Bainbridge. Another story I forgot to tell you as we, departing, there was a couple of underclassmen kids that rode across Eagle Harbor to see us off, and for their actions they darned near got expelled.

FK: How about your close friends like Reese Moran or Earl Hanson or Hal Champlis? Did they come to see you off?

GN: Earl did. He was there at the landing, but we couldn't shake hands because there was a barrier there. And Hal Champlis was working at the shipyard that day, the superintendent wouldn't let him, wouldn't let him leave to see us off. But Reese might have been in the service then, I can't remember.

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