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RP: Tell us about your experiences at Marysville. I know you weren't there very long, but is there a certain sight, sound, or image of the camp, impression that you have?

FY: Yes. A lot of people who volunteered to work there, they were truly wonderful people. They tried to help us as much as they can.

RP: Were you visited at all by Caucasian friends while you were at Marysville?

FY: Yes, the Christian people who come into our camp to see what they could do for us. And then I remembered that they came upon some of these young kids, they said, "Well, you're in a concentration camp, so look fierce." So they stuck out their tongue and whatnot, to look fierce, I remember.

RP: Can you describe the housing that you lived in in Marysville? Was it...

FY: Oh, it was a barracks, and then the family just received one room.

RP: And who was there? You had your family, and you had your sister's family.

FY: Yes. Just my younger sister and my brother and my mother were there. Meanwhile, my father had, came down with tuberculosis, so he had to stay in the hospital.

RP: Back in Sacramento?

FY: No, in camp.

RP: In Marsyville?

FY: Yes.

RP: Anything else about Marysville?

FY: Well, we were very young, and it was sort of delightful for us at that time to meet other young people from different states.

RP: There were people there from Oregon and Washington?

FY: Yes, uh-huh, that's right.

RP: Now, did you work at all or volunteer your services for that month that you were there?

FY: Yes, uh-huh. I worked, let's see, where did I work? Since we were there early, let me see, I worked in one of the office, and they asked those who were there earlier to help some of the other evacuees that, who were coming in.

RP: And what did you do to help them?

FY: Well, like writing down, like the Isseis, they couldn't write English, so we were able to write down their names and things in the forms that we were given.

RP: So you did some interpretive work.

FY: Yes, that's right, yes.

RP: Did you get paid for that?

FY: Yes. How much was it? I forgot. Was it about seven dollars or nine dollars a month, or something like that.

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