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KL: What am I leaving out about Manzanar? Were there other things you wanted to hear more about?

Off camera: Did you know other people who worked at the hospital that you were friends with, or did you know other people who were staff at the hospital?

HF: No, I don't remember their names.

Off camera: Was there anyone in particular who cared for you when you were in the hospital for so long?

HF: They all cared for me, so I don't remember.

Off camera: And you kind of talked briefly about how people kept moving around camp or leaving and about how maybe you acquired a crib or something. Was that something that you remember happening all the time, people moving or leaving?

HF: Probably they left camp. But that's the only time they would leave their furniture, they couldn't take it with them. And I really don't know where I got the crib. Somebody gave it to me, because I don't remember buying it.

Off camera: What kind of food did they have at the hospital mess hall?

HF: Well, the same food they have in camp.

Off camera: So it wasn't different than the food you'd get anywhere else?

HF: No, nothing special.

KL: You said Fred was a pretty easy baby, but was noise ever an issue or anything with your neighbors? Was it difficult to have...

HF: No, it wasn't. Nobody complained, so I don't remember... well, he probably cried when I left him to go to eat. I couldn't take him, so I just left him. That's when he cried most. Most of the time he was okay.

KL: Why couldn't you take him?

HF: Well, then the soldiers came on furlough, and then they would take pictures for us. That's where I got some of the pictures.

KL: Oh. Who would take the pictures?

HF: The soldiers that came with the camera, and they would, there was a friend, he had a camera, so he took the pictures for us.

KL: Did you have friends who went in the army?

HF: Oh, yeah.

KL: What do you remember about their decision to go?

HF: They didn't complain. If you were drafted you went, and some people volunteered.

KL: Was that a difficult thing for people to do, to volunteer, do you think?

HF: I don't think so. Some of them, some families had several boys going.

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