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RP: You had a chance to visit your parents at Manzanar.

MS: Uh-huh, but that was right, oh, the first year or something, we went to visit them.

RP: You said that originally your, they denied you the opportunity to go to Manzanar, but your father --

MS: We requested that, my parents there and my father wasn't feeling well, so we requested, so the army permitted, but they sent us with army escort.

RP: Military policemen?

MS: No. No, army, army men. Well, I guess, I don't whether they were called MPs or not.

RP: Did they have a uniform on?

MS: No, no, I don't think he had any, I don't remember that.

RP: Like a camp escort, maybe.

MS: Yeah. Yeah, they had to have some, I think maybe they did have a uniform, to take us there. And of course the different people, we were there for a month, but different people brought us back. I think we were, I know we went by train the first time, when we went, but coming back, somebody was there that was coming to, so we came back by car, but I think we went by train.

RP: What were your impressions of the month that you spent at Manzanar?

MS: It was the same, same thing all over, but we had a lot of friends there, so it was nice. We visited them. But that place in the wintertime, I heard it was just freezing cold. Like it got cold in the desert, but it was a different kind of, not like snow, it didn't snow in Poston. We had the heat more than... course, Manzanar got so cold. I think it still does. Isn't it cold in that Bishop area in the wintertime? Yeah, I, that Bishop, we took our kids camping one year, went fishing. June Lake, we stayed there and we toured a lot in that area. Portola up north, we went there, took the kids. We traveled a lot. My husband liked to travel, so every year we'd take a big vacation.

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