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DG: And I'm, I'd like to kind of go backwards a little bit because you mentioned earlier a riot in Manzanar, preventing you from being able to gather after that. Do you remember anything from the riot? What happened...

MW: All I remember is this one friend of my sister that, in one of, one of the people that she used to go out with, his, his brother got killed. And they're, it's because they're standing there, watch, everybody goes just to watch. And so they, of course, I wasn't allowed to go down and look. And, and then the sentry in the tower shot into the crowd, and I guess he was one of those that got killed. And he was a young boy, like sixteen. But they're all there as, just looking to see what's happening, you know. And so I don't recall what started it or anything like that. But I probably should have read something about it, but I don't recall what it was now. And, so we just stayed in our homes. And I, I think that was in the summertime so we weren't going to school then.

DG: And how did that affect the atmosphere in the camp and...

MW: Oh, it was, it was, I think everybody was very leery and worried about what would happen to them. And they, you know, kind of stayed away from the edges of the fences because they would worry that they may get shot also. And I think everybody felt as worried about it as, as the next person, not knowing what was going to happen, if, if they did anything that they felt was out of place.

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