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TI: So going from, let's talk about going from Merced to Amache. So you said you didn't have too many memories of Merced, how about when you first got to Amache? What was that like? What are your memories?

WM: Same.

TI: So barracks again, you live in a barracks?

WM: Yeah, and more bigger (than Merced).

TI: And so when, your living quarters, did you again have two rooms or one room?

WM: Two rooms. See, my same thing like that.

TI: And you talked about your father being the foreman for the shoe and the shoe store, shoe repair.

WM: Yeah.

TI: What about anyone else in the family? Did anyone else have jobs?

WM: Yeah. My brother, he was working silkscreen, or what do you call that?

TI: Silkscreen?

WM: Yeah.

TI: So like making signs and things like that?

WM: Yeah. Then after that he went to Denver, no, Detroit or someplace.

TI: And this is Tosh?

WM: Yeah.

TI: So he was kind of like a silkscreen sign maker, then went to Detroit.

WM: Yosh went to, volunteered the service.

TI: So he volunteered into the army?

WM: Yeah, 442nd boys.

TI: Okay, so 442. How about Rose? Did she have a job?

WM: No, she was taking care of the family. But she used to work mess hall, I think.

TI: Okay, mess hall. And how about Sho? Did he have a job?

WM: No, he go to school yet.

TI: School, and same thing with you, you went to school?

WM: Yeah.

TI: So tell me about school. What was school like in...

WM: Okay, not bad.

TI: Well, how did it compare with the Walnut Grove school?

WM: More friendly kind. More people, too.

TI: And how about the learning? Did you learn as much in the...

WM: Not too much.

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