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HH: We'll come back to your involvement with JACL. But before we do that, let's get into the process of the various kinds of concentration camps you were in. You went from Stockton, and where did you go from there, which camps?

GU: Okay. I went, from Stockton, there was a county fairgrounds. And the folks from Stockton, which was the center of the agricultural area, had people from Lodi, French Camp, the other surrounding small towns. So we were all put into the county fairgrounds where they put up the barracks inside the grandstand area and outside. I told you earlier about the fact that I taught Japanese to these young servicemen who came from all over, particularly became friendly with some guys from Iowa and Nebraska, these healthy looking, blond, good-looking young men. And when they found out that I was no longer teaching them because they went into camp, they found out where I was. And the military guard called me out, and there were three of my former students there with a box of chocolate candies and flowers. And they saw where I was, and one fellow actually cried while he told me he was sorry that this had happened. And then from there, then that was from May until October. And I was in the last group to leave the assembly center because I was one of the people who was responsible for the educational program, so we had to put everything together to return to the Stockton Board of Education. But it was in mid-October that I ended up at Rohwer, Arkansas.

HH: I see.

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