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RP: You had your child in... you told me that there was some concerns about the mothers weren't eating correctly, so your husband took a different job.

AS: Working in the warehouse.

RP: And what...

AS: Oh, that was funny. So he got this biggest, big pea coat. You know how hard it, hot it is in Manzanar and he had a cap. And so the doctors told me I should have a lot of fruits, and so he'd go to work in the warehouse and they, the white people, they had all their stuff coming there, so he'd come back with big oranges and apples and bananas all stuck in his pea coat. [Laughs] 'Course, I mean the fellows knew that I'm supposed to have a lot of that. It's not stealing if he's bringing it to me. But the people, everything, they got along. Workers there, too, the people that came to help, the white workers, they knew the Japanese fellows. They're, they'd get into it. They don't try to put it on or anything. If they are better educated or what, they... you know how Japanese people are. They say, you know, you can't help but this is the way life is. Shikata, shikata ga nai and all that. So they're that way. I think it turned out okay, don't you think? Us people, I know the young people like my daughter, "How come you didn't fight like the, like..." They were too young, the oldest Niseis were, like, forty or maybe something like that, and they were in their twenties and thirties, but they figured why fight against the group. It's gonna happen, so they went along. And now my kids think we were kind of dumb. We just went along and let put us in camp. I said, "Lynn, it was not that way." Why fight against it, huh? Turns out okay, but, but lot of the second generation people think that we were too, they were too easy minded. But it wasn't that. They knew. It turned out okay. We went through a lot of hardship, but look at... no use fighting about it. If the government's against you...

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