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KL: You said you wanted to give a description of your first day at Manzanar.

GM: Yes. It was very windy, and I had a hard time breathing because of the sandstorms. And we just followed the crowd, we got off and we each had a hay mattress that we carried to our barracks. And the walls and the floor had knotholes all over or you can see through 'em. So after we made the bed, my mother sent us, my two sisters and I, out to hunt for can lids to seal the holes, I remember that. But for the first, I don't know, maybe six months or so, the only thing separating the outside from the inside was a one by twelve piece of wood with knotholes in it. And it wasn't until... my guess again, maybe six months or so after we got there, that they put drywall on the inside and vinyl on the floors.

KL: What was your address in Manzanar?

GM: Block 15, Building 4, Apartment 4. I don't know how I remember that.

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