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KL: Were you all Methodist growing up?

DW: What?

KL: Were you Methodist growing up?

DW: Yes, we are.

WJ: Yeah, I was baptized by a Japanese Methodist minister in camp.

KL: Oh. Do you remember it?

WJ: Vaguely. I was scared to death.

KL: Where was the church? Was it a separate building?

WJ: Yeah, it was small.

DW: We went to church... it might have been half of one of the barracks or something, was it?

WJ: Yeah, I don't know where it was.

DW: I don't either.

KL: So you went to worship services there pretty regularly.

DW: Oh, yeah, we went to church every Sunday. And then I remember going to the Buddhist ceremony with Dad once, which was really different.

WJ: I never even did that.

DW: It just, it was in part of one of the barracks. It was one end because I remember they had darkened it some way, it was a great deal more ritualistic looking than, of course, a Methodist church.

WJ: Methodist church may have been a separate building.

DW: I don't remember that either. We went to church every Sunday of our lives.

WJ: There were quite a few Japanese in there that were Methodist, and I'm sure --

DW: We probably had the church then.

WJ: We had the church, and I suspect it was built just by volunteer labor from --

DW: All of us went together.

KL: But the minister was an internee, he was Japanese?

WJ: Yes.

DW: There was some other part of that question.

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