BK: Heart Mountain, that I was going to Heart Mountain and Minidoka and Topaz. And I think that there's been some misunderstandings about that. But they never gave me any, didn't tell me or give me any instructions. They just told me to go there. And of course, I guess the directors or the people there probably had a general idea of what they wanted me to do. But that was some of the misunderstandings I know that over the years, but the JACL had nothing to do with me. They didn't tell me what to do or any of the other groups. I was just told to go there and so I just went to the camps and whatever they had on their agenda, I did.

FA: So you went, you went first to Wyoming, and tell me, then, what was your reaction when you approached Heart Mountain?

BK: Well, of course, I was really quite shocked when I approached Heart Mountain and came up to the, to the gate and saw these armed guards and they were all wearing the same uniform I was wearing. And inside, behind the barbed wire, were all these, my own people, so to speak. Most of them, as you know, they were American citizens. It was really quite a shock. I never did get over that.

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