YM: Well, when we first got there, of course, we didn't know where we were. [Laughs] All we knew that it was a desert. But Gila River, it was... I suppose, a shock. Barrack half-finished. We were assigned, my wife and I was assigned to a room to share with a family from San Leandro, California, who happened, one of those that evacuated into central California. They were about fifteen years older than we were. So we had to share a room with them because they couldn't give us the room to ourselves, no two-person room. So we put up sheets and blanket for privacy, and that was our room. And, of course, my family and her family had their own barrack because of the size of the family.

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