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KB: How did you learn that, after Pearl Harbor, that your family would have to leave your home?

SO: Well, we found out in February. President Roosevelt issued that edict that you have to register, and they said you have to go to camp, I guess.

KB: Do you remember who in your family heard it first?

SO: No. I'm sure that my sister and my brother...

KB: Do you remember how much time you had to get ready to leave your home?

SO: About a week, maybe.

KB: Were you involved in any of the packing or making decisions of what to take?

SO: No. My mother probably packed whatever she could.

KB: Do you remember who had to go do the registering and the tags?

SO: Well, my sister or my brother did all of it.

KB: Do you remember curfew?

SO: Yeah, but I never got to stay out late anyway. [Laughs]

KB: Did it cramp your sister or brother's style there?

SO: No, I don't believe so.

KB: So your parents made the decisions about what to take and what to leave. Did you have to sell anything?

SO: (Yes), we had to sell whatever we could not take or store in the truck. We put couple, three big trunks into storage.

KB: Is that close by where you were living, the storage, do you remember?

SO: No, they were downtown.

KB: Was it someone's building that had offered to let you do that?

SO: No, it was a storage building.

KB: Okay, like a storage unit type of a deal?

SO: Yeah.

KB: Did you have to pay for that?

SO: Yeah, eventually.

KB: I hear your brother built a table and he had to sell it?

SO: Yeah, he did.

KB: How much did he have to sell it for?

SO: Five or ten dollars.

KB: Did people come to your home to buy things, or did you take it somewhere to sell it?

SO: No, somebody... I think our apartment manager wanted to... anyway, he didn't even bring it home from the school.

KB: He made it at school?

SO: Yeah.

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