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RP: Do you remember playing a football game between Manzanar High School and Big Pine?

RK: Yeah, I remember that game.

RP: And you played in that game?

RK: Yeah, a little bit.

RP: Were you kind of --

RK: That was the only time we played outside, outside of our group.

RP: Right, they came in.

RK: Yeah. Big Pine came in.

RP: Right.

RK: And we beat 'em, I think.

RP: You did.

RK: Yeah. I know we did. [Laughs]

RP: Well I talked to the guy --

RK: Big Pine is just a little school. It's just a little town, huh. So one day they had a...

RP: You didn't just beat 'em, you walloped them.

RK: Yeah.

RP: Yeah. The guy who brought the program told me that it was thirty-three to six.

RK: Yeah, well, don't forget, there were ten-thousand of us there.

RP: Yeah. What was interesting in looking through the program, there were a couple of guys from the Children's Village who were in, played on the high school team, too.

RK: Seinan, I think they were called Seinan?

RP: Yeah.

RK: Yeah, uh-huh.

RP: Aisozaki brothers? Tamo, and I forget the other gentleman's name.

RK: Yeah.

RP: So. Do you remember anything else about that game at all?

RK: You know, I really don't. I really don't. It was a, it was just a game. It was actually more fun to just play against each other. We played tackle right on the sand. [Laughs] Didn't know any better.

RP: No pad tackle.

RK: No pad or anything. [Laughs]

RP: Chase any girls in camp?

RK: No, no hardly.

RP: No?

RK: No. But we had our... "She's nice" and all that. But no, nothing serious, no.

RP: So you didn't have a girlfriend?

RK: No. No.

RP: Did you go to dances at all?

RK: Yeah, sure. Yeah, I'd do that. That was, those were the Glenn Miller days huh? Those were the jitterbug days, yeah. Sure. In the mess hall.

RP: Speaking of mess halls, what do you remember about the mess hall that you ate at? Block 6.

RK: Not bad. Not bad. They had Japanese food and English food. So, for being there it was, it was like army style, I guess. I wasn't in the army but it probably was the army style. So it was pretty good.

RP: Did you have a certain food that, that you just avoided completely?

RK: No, I don't. I ate anything, yeah. Yeah.

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