Description: Executive Order came up, going on the "Big Trip", mother helped the children coop with the situation, mother/father discuss plan with her. Picking up suitcases, "children grow up happy and secure," presented internment as a trip. The years worth of work, strawberries coming to their peek, amazed at what parents kept doing, continued as if everything was normal and nothing changed.
Description: Resourcefulness of Father-hid one bed roll= hammer, nails, roll of wire, saw, bucket, a gallon jug, wrap old violin in one of blankets, bags of seeds (flower/vegetable). Their focus was always "For the Sake of The Children."
Description: 16 Assembly Centers until permanent camps were ready. Black barracks and brown dirt, people just planting seeds, people gathered around morning glory leaf.
Description: Transfer to another camp, shades pulled down, experience on the train. Arrived at the stop, soldiers surprised to see them at the door, rows of army trucks.
Description: Saw sister and followed them out, got into a jeep, road down the camp to find family. Block 229 "Post them , roast them, toast them." Mother carrying long straws, Issue body bags for mattresses, jump off the jeep to help mom. Climate and housing environment, flush water on the cot, "Put them all out and let them become the skulls of the cattle".
Description: Camp life not conducive family life, father contracted to work on sugar beet farm, $25 for leaving camp, family was all together, thinning sugar beets. Father good story teller, kids wanted to be near father.
