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EO: When did you come back to the United States?

HU: I come back to the United States 1923, May 20, 1923.

[Interruption]

EO: Tell me when you came back and why you came back.

[Interruption]

HU: May 20, 1923, I came back to United States. And I have nobody out here in the United States. So I started working in a lumber mill and I worked there three years.

EO: Where was that?

HU: Huh?

EO: Where was that?

HU: They call, place called Eatonville; that's 30 miles inland from Tacoma, Washington. I worked there three years, then I want to meet my brother in Milwaukee, so I take a trip after three years to Milwaukee. And met my brother, but I couldn't speak English, he forget all about the Japanese, so we can't communicate anymore. So I stay there for six months, I looked for the job. We went out to the Chicago, but Depression was there already because after the war, you know, Chicago was one of the biggest industries for the United States. And soon as war stopped, everything gets slowed down. And if you tried to look the job, you looked the ad and looked for the place, you'd see the people lined up for probably one or two blocks long. It discouraged me to look for the job. So I left my brother there and I come back to the California. Then I worked here and there and finally 1929, I get married to my wife. And, well, we live in L.A. for about eleven years -- let's see, '29, that's about thirteen years, almost. I worked for the market most of the time.

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