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MA: So you mentioned receiving a notice about the internment, or about what they called evacuation, and you were in Corvallis.

MY: Uh-huh.

MA: So what did you do? Where were you headed, where did they send you?

MY: As I recall -- and I don't even know how I got there -- but we were supposed to take a train from Portland. So we had to go from Corvallis to Portland and I don't know how I even got there to catch this train that was going to take us to Tule Lake.

MA: So you went right from, so you went to Corvallis and Portland to Tule Lake.

MY: Uh-huh.

MA: But in Portland, how long did you stay?

MY: I don't even recall. I don't know whether we went from bus to the train or...

MA: Oh, so it was just a short time, it was...

MY: Yeah, I didn't have to, there was no staying there as I recall.

MA: So there was no, like what they called assembly centers.

MY: No.

MA: You were not sent to an assembly center.

MY: No, no.

MA: And were you with the group of Nisei students from Oregon State?

MY: Most of them went to join their families, and the rest of us just went on our own, followed the orders, where we were supposed to report. It was a confusing time. [Laughs]

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