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BH: How did you find out about the end of the war?

HI: I'm not sure. Probably by radio. They might have announced it in the barracks when we had lunch or dinner, meals.

BH: When you knew that you would be leaving camp, what were you feeling about camp and about going home?

HI: That I would miss my friends. We didn't know for sure where we would be. Well, I guess my folks knew, they must have known, but they didn't tell us. It was kind of nice to know that we're going home.

BH: How did you get home?

HI: By train. My family was able to get a sleeper car because I still had the remnants of my polio. So we were able to get a sleeper car, and it was comfortable coming home.

BH: This time you didn't have to draw the curtains down.

HI: Yeah, right.

BH: Did you come back to the farm in Montavilla?

HI: (Yes), same house.

BH: And the house. What happened to the house and the farm while you were gone?

HI: Oh, I think they must have rented (it). (...) But they took pretty good care of it. I don't know the details of the arrangement that they had.

BH: And your dad continued farming?

HI: (Yes).

BH: Now by this time, your older brother was in the MIS. What about your sister and your younger brother?

HI: Oh, my sister got married in camp to (someone) from Seattle. So after the war, they went to Seattle to live. And then, of course, my younger brother was still in high school at the time. So he finished his high school going to Benson.

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