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JS: What do you remember about your wife?

EI: Yeah, that was my wife.

JS: Yeah. You got married right before the war?

EI: Yeah. About two, three months before we get into the camp.

JS: So after Pearl Harbor, then you and your wife decided to get married.

EI: Yeah.

JS: And how did that happen? Was that an arranged marriage?

EI: Huh?

JS: How did that happen? Were you already dating your wife?

EI: No. If I don't get married, they're going to take me to the army. So my folks get all excited about, he asked me, "Is there a lady that want, girl that want to marry you?" "Yeah, maybe." I didn't propose yet, but I proposed then.

JS: Oh, so they suggested you get married.

EI: Yeah.

JS: So you wouldn't get draft...

EI: No, I didn't get drafted, no.

JS: You didn't get drafted.

TI: And what kind of wedding did you have in Walnut Grove? Where did you get married?

EI: Oh, they used to have a big wedding, big parties. Those days, right after the war, so we can't have no party or anything. We got upstairs, you know, that new building, nice place, we got about twenty, thirty people, maybe thirty people, wedding over there. Like my home.

JS: Oh, at your home.

EI: Yeah.

TI: Okay, so let's move on. And as people are getting ready to leave Walnut Grove, did you ever talk to your father or mother or brothers about what might happen? Do you remember talking about that?

EI: I don't know, I can't remember.

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