David Wragge

David Wragge reflects that the Dormitory was like a prison

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David Wragge

DW: It was a prison, like I said we couldn’t get out, just walk to the gate, when my father came to visit us, when he was out from working he would come home every couple of months, three or four months he would come to us to visit at the dormitory. My father had to get permission to visit his own children at the dormitory. So yeh it was a bad situation, you couldn’t just get out and walk out the gate.

 

 

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