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LT: Well, eventually, in the spring, your family and others in Hood River received notice that you would be leaving your home and your farm for a place whose location you didn't know. How did your family learn the news, and what did you have to do then?

JH: I don't recall any of that, but I know that then my mom, when she found out we were gonna have to leave and that we can only carry one luggage each, she started packing our clothes and things to get ready to leave.

LT: Okay. Now, did you have suitcases?

JH: Uh-huh.

LT: So you were a fourteen year old girl, you're still going to school. You know that you're going to be leaving, you don't know where you're going, you don't know what the weather will be like. What did you take?

JH: You know, I don't know. My mother did all the packing of the clothes. So I just don't recall, since I didn't do any of that, it just doesn't, I don't register it.

LT: Okay, okay. In May, you and your family went to the train depot downtown. Do you remember how you got there?

JH: No. Oh, I think our party that was looking after our farm took us, the Waltons.

LT: So you loaded up your luggage and they took you to the train depot. Do you recall who you saw, what you saw?

JH: No.

LT: Okay. Had you been on a train before?

JH: No.

LT: So this was your first train trip.

JH: Uh-huh, trip.

LT: Okay. Do you remember the train ride?

JH: No, I don't. And I don't even remember boarding the train.

LT: And you did, even though you and your family didn't know where you were going, you ended up in Northern California outside Fresno where you were at Pinedale Assembly Center. And then eventually you were transferred to Tule Lake, a camp in Northern California. And, you know, there are many who have gone through the experiences as you have, and don't recall either. I wonder why that is.

JH: I don't know. I don't remember a thing about Pinedale or Tule Lake.

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