1 00:00:00,51 --> 00:00:07,30 And then when was it the you actually did leave. River. It was made thirteen 2 00:00:07,30 --> 00:00:13,84 nineteen forty two and I remember because that's my sister fourth birthday. And I 3 00:00:15,55 --> 00:00:22,35 and her best friend. Was Margie was in it. Margie Bryan. And her 4 00:00:23,14 --> 00:00:28,00 Marjorie Bryan and her mother came to the train station with the cake with the 5 00:00:28,00 --> 00:00:34,91 birthday cake and she and Margie remain friends with 6 00:00:34,91 --> 00:00:41,45 my sister and all through camp and even after after the war. She came to visit my 7 00:00:41,45 --> 00:00:48,33 sister in Chicago and and when I took my mother back to 8 00:00:49,29 --> 00:00:56,06 Henri. In the ninety's we did get to meet with 9 00:00:56,87 --> 00:00:59,16 Mrs Bryan I think she won't she might have been 10 00:00:59,16 --> 00:01:04,65 a year older than my mother but it was very nice to see her and for my parents my 11 00:01:04,65 --> 00:01:11,51 mother to get together with her. So there were some good friends and neighbors 12 00:01:11,51 --> 00:01:18,39 among the Caucasians. Yes yes. People who helped them. Who were still friendly. Oh 13 00:01:18,39 --> 00:01:24,80 yes and I don't know if I mentioned by the that one picture that we 14 00:01:24,80 --> 00:01:30,58 took the day before you back your way. This was taken 15 00:01:31,74 --> 00:01:38,27 in front of our neighbor. And there I guess there were 16 00:01:39,25 --> 00:01:45,80 all the cold cocked. In proximity. There were the closest Caucasian neighbors. 17 00:01:45,84 --> 00:01:47,13 It was Al for 18 00:01:47,13 --> 00:01:52,39 a debt mine. This was his house and he took our picture the day before evacuation 19 00:01:52,39 --> 00:01:59,26 and it's my own. My grandfather and my parents. And Miles said Billings 20 00:01:59,26 --> 00:02:05,88 and then Mr Chia and I had heard. It was only in my last 21 00:02:05,88 --> 00:02:12,52 year or maybe the year before because my brother Paul passed away last year and 22 00:02:12,53 --> 00:02:13,63 he remembered 23 00:02:13,63 --> 00:02:20,17 a lot of things and he he mentioned that Mr Desmond told my father 24 00:02:22,07 --> 00:02:26,67 . When that we're going to be evacuated. He says you don't go you and your family. 25 00:02:26,67 --> 00:02:31,83 Don't go. I'm going to hide you and I don't know where you're going to play at the 26 00:02:31,83 --> 00:02:33,82 highest but he was really 27 00:02:33,82 --> 00:02:39,60 a very good friend their family was very good friends. And so here you were 28 00:02:40,38 --> 00:02:47,10 a large family all these kids. And he was going to help. He was willing to 29 00:02:47,10 --> 00:02:53,96 and even took my parents back to Hood River or. I 30 00:02:53,96 --> 00:02:59,14 think. It was nineteen. So nineteen 31 00:03:01,69 --> 00:03:02,54 and then. And in 32 00:03:02,54 --> 00:03:08,57 a way it was in the ninety's and we did see he was there with I think it was 33 00:03:09,71 --> 00:03:16,45 the son his son Alfred. A son or grandson and we've visited 34 00:03:16,45 --> 00:03:19,53 with him and he and my my dad and he had 35 00:03:19,53 --> 00:03:24,87 a real good time remembering the good times 36 00:03:27,23 --> 00:03:33,31 . Well that is so interesting to me that you how some of these 37 00:03:34,05 --> 00:03:39,22 past memories of people right. During that time when there was so much negative. Oh 38 00:03:39,22 --> 00:03:41,90 yes this and that and I want to as 39 00:03:41,90 --> 00:03:48,62 a young child. Were you were at that negative and I Japanese feeling also Well yes 40 00:03:48,62 --> 00:03:54,54 because we'd hear people you know calling out Jap and that and then and. 41 00:03:56,19 --> 00:04:02,82 I think my older brothers and sisters probably felt it more than I did. But. 42 00:04:04,39 --> 00:04:08,01 We had a dog. My brother caught someone gave us 43 00:04:08,01 --> 00:04:14,60 a dog for Christmas. It must have been the year before. And while he was still 44 00:04:14,60 --> 00:04:17,11 Poppy. There was I guess 45 00:04:17,11 --> 00:04:23,59 a muslim up anyway with the BECAUSE HE GOT A for Christmas. He called it. Chris 46 00:04:24,63 --> 00:04:31,41 . And he and the Doll were inseparable. But after the war broke out 47 00:04:33,26 --> 00:04:36,96 . One day the dog came home and my sister said she heard 48 00:04:37,93 --> 00:04:44,80 a gunshot. And then the dog came home with the bull. And so my 49 00:04:44,80 --> 00:04:49,17 brother. Claude nursed it back and stayed up nights and nursed him back to health 50 00:04:49,17 --> 00:04:56,17 but my dad. He assumed it was one neighbor and my 51 00:04:56,17 --> 00:05:02,03 dad would sit while must have been because he was chasing chickens or something and 52 00:05:02,04 --> 00:05:08,14 when we had chickens too but is it must been that but I but I would think well why 53 00:05:09,63 --> 00:05:15,52 did he wait till December to do service over food and so my brother 54 00:05:16,96 --> 00:05:20,57 because he didn't want to happen again. He tied the dog up you know tied it to 55 00:05:20,57 --> 00:05:27,18 a tree and figured he could keep it safe. That way but you know after seeing the 56 00:05:27,19 --> 00:05:33,71 dog had the freedom and then being tied up. He can stand it. So he let it go 57 00:05:33,71 --> 00:05:40,54 and then shortly after that. He didn't return home. The dog 58 00:05:40,54 --> 00:05:44,54 and returned home and then my sister said she was working out in the strawberry 59 00:05:44,54 --> 00:05:47,94 field and she said she thought she heard 60 00:05:47,94 --> 00:05:53,38 a gunshot and she said she saw the dog walk walk. You know at a distance across 61 00:05:53,38 --> 00:05:55,18 a field and go toward 62 00:05:55,18 --> 00:06:00,95 a swampy area. And the dog never came back and we assume that this same thing 63 00:06:00,95 --> 00:06:07,95 happened then. It's just too bad that the dog through no go. 64 00:06:07,96 --> 00:06:14,03 So that but but I guess it was you you'd read in the I guess my 65 00:06:14,89 --> 00:06:21,81 mind parents would read and then you know in that paper about. There were 66 00:06:21,81 --> 00:06:28,32 certain names that would come up that were really. In part 67 00:06:28,32 --> 00:06:28,91 Japanese.