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AM: And then once again, you left the camp before the rest of your family.
JS: Yeah, uh-huh.
AM: And when was that?
JS: I left there in April when I turned nineteen. I turned, I went to Denver, Colorado. Well, actually, it was Lafayette, Colorado, on the farm where we got, FBI gave us a clearance to go, so we went out to Lafayette and sponsored by a farmer to work on the farm. But that didn't last long. [Laughs]
AM: Yeah, well, to go back a little bit to your, the clearance that you got. Was that the same thing as the, what we call now, the "loyalty questions" or the questionnaire?
JS: No, no. That was --
AM: This is different?
JS: -- that was if you're cleared by the FBI -- I guess it must be tied in with that, too. But if you were cleared, why, you could leave camp. And if you had a sponsor, you could leave camp.
AM: And you had both of those, the clearance and the sponsor that was the people on the farm there.
JS: Yeah, had to sponsor you, uh-huh.
AM: Okay, and the permission to leave, that was permanent or temporary?
JS: That was permanent, yeah.
AM: So you didn't have to go back to camp.
JS: No, we didn't have to go back to camp, no.
AM: And so you don't remember filling out the "loyalty questionnaire"?
JS: I remember filling out, yes.
AM: You do remember?
JS: It was "yes-yes," "no-no," but being we had a brother in the army, you couldn't very well say, "no-no," so we all went "yes-yes."
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