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RP: Do you remember much about the trip up to Manzanar?

HN: No, other than... you know, Richard, I'm pretty sure it was a train and then it may have been a bus. I really don't remember now, exactly. I think it was a train. I'm pretty sure it was a train. But the trip up north, no, it just, you know, six hour train ride. Got to Manzanar and got off and they gave you... you lived in... we went right to our unit though, 5-1-4. 'Cause that was already built. Barracks, tarpaper barracks with spaces on the floorboards so dust could come up underneath and it was pretty... and they gave us mattresses to fill with straw to sleep on.

RP: Camp was still being constructed, too, when you came there.

HN: Oh yeah, it was still being built. But most of the blocks were barely started. I think the only ones that were finished is one through six and maybe seven through twelve. I don't know. I don't remember.

RP: Do you recall any feeling you had about, you know, having to leave school or friends or that type of thing behind?

HN: Well, the only thing I could remember is I left a couple of friends at North Hollywood High, you know. But I kept in touch for a couple of years and then we lost contact. But other than that, at thirteen you're pretty young, so you're making new friends all the time. So, in camp we got to play sports so it was kind of... transition for me was probably not as hard as for my mother and father.

RP: Right. A little more normal for you.

HN: Yes.

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