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EO: Now, what was happening to your wife and family since, now, you're either involved in this committee or you're now in jail.

FE: Well, they didn't see much of me during the time we were active in camp. Because we were up late almost every evening, we were busy pounding out stencils for the bulletins and I don't know how many stencils we spoiled for each one that we completed. But none of us... we had a rickety old typewriter, and none of us were real good typists, but we managed to put it out. So we spent a lot of time out of our homes or out of our barracks and the time that, I know they had a hardship when they moved from camp because they had to pack up a lot of things, my father and my brother helped them, helped my family quite a bit in getting things packed. I was a guest at Leavenworth, so I couldn't do much to help 'em.

EO: Were you working? How were they getting... was your wife working?

FE: Well, we got back in 1946, a little after. Oh, in the camp? Let's see... I don't think my wife was working because she had two little children, you know. One was born in camp. My son was born in 1943, December of 1943. And my other one was about a year and a half old at the time that we went into camp, so, I guess, they'd just get along on whatever the camp offered. As far as money, you really didn't need much in the way of money, because you were in camp, you know, everything was furnished. But we did do some shopping while I was there, through Sears Roebuck catalogs and Montgomery Ward catalogs. So...

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