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RP: Let's backtrack to December 7, 1941, the day that Pearl Harbor was bombed. What do you remember about that day?

ES: Well, my boyfriend and I were hiking at Angeles Crest on a trail and we didn't know anything about it until we got in the car to come home. And heard about the bombing and we thought it was an Orson Welles program we were listening to, we couldn't believe it. So then we knew that he would be going, he would be drafted right away which he was. He left January 2nd of 1942 for the army. I was a junior at UCLA at the time.

RP: Where did he get sent?

ES: He did his basic training at Camp Roberts in California and then went to El Cajon, he was in the field artillery. They put him in the field artillery because he had had a year of trigonometry and he was a surveyor, was put in as a surveyor. So then he was sent to Adak in the Aleutians and they built up Adak as much as they could and when on the invasion of Kitska when they got there there were no Japanese, they had left the day before. So he missed that battle then he was sent after spending two years in Adak he was sent to Centerville, Mississippi, to Camp Van Dorn and had thirty day leave of absence and we were married. So I had a ten-day leave for vacation or whatever from Manzanar and we were married in Huntington Park, May 28th of 1944. And after our honeymoon at Laguna Beach he went to Camp Dorn, Mississippi, and I went back to Manzanar, kept writing him wanting to know why he hadn't found a place for me to live with him. So finally the day arrived in August, the middle of August and I left Manzanar and went to Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi.

RP: What was his name, your husband?

ES: Arthur Stanley.

RP: It sounds like he loved to hike just as much as you?

ES: Well, no, he didn't like to hike as much as me, he was more like my dad and if there was a lake at the end where he could fish.

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