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RP: There was another memory of Minidoka that you mentioned about a woman that you saw at Minidoka.

RS: Yeah, I remember seeing this woman who walked all day long. She walked from one end of the camp to other and she did it continuously all day long, just walked and walked and walked and walked. And that's another thing, I'd never seen anything like that happen before and my mother said that she's nervous. Well, it's more than nervous, nowadays we would say that she's got something really major going on inside this woman that she has to let out by doing this walking. But of course in those days that's the extent of what my mother could describe it as, as being a nervous women. Well, see, I've never encountered people with real mental disease kind of things a real things like that going on within a person's psyche that you just had to let it out somehow or other. And here's this woman that's doing this. And so that's something else that I can remember all these years you know. She didn't bother anybody else, she just walked and walked and walked and walked. And it just amazed me, part of my learning experience about people and about the way things go in this world.

RP: Did your father work in camp?

RS: Oh, yes.

RP: What did he do?

RS: Originally he worked as a janitor, that was his assignment, but I think later on he got switched over to driving one of these trucks that delivered things within the camp. That was his job.

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