ms. cabana: i believe so, yes. >> did you do research into rations?s or tobacco ms. rettes in the k and c rations. the k rations had 4 cigarettes. it actually talked about that ,riginated, a just put them in and pretty quickly they figured out it destroyed the cigarettes in transport. we talk a lot and they were changing the packaging, and they eventually put the cigarettes into a cardboard sleeve to protect the integrity of the cigarettes. so they did include those in the rations. >> for other programs with the mexican laborers, was that mostly in the western half of the united states? because i read research that we used german pows on the east coast. did we have any of the mexican laborers on the east as well and germans on the west? ms. cabana: i think a lot of it was in the southwest, but also into the midwest. , and ourlly surprised classrooms we talk about the but as i gotram, deeper into it, i was surprised at how many ended up in the great plains region, nebraska, iowa, and whatnot. it seemed they went much further during this time. then we would have thought

ms. cabana: not that i came across. ront, i have talked with my students, and actually, ms. johnson buttered up in the interview, i wish i could have played the whole thing, it was so interesting. the way that we cautiously think of recycling seems to be more of natural everyday life to them. so, they would, anything they had on hand, to naturally reuse it, because of limitations on available supplies and whatnot. so in the way that we think of purposely cautiously reusing and recycling, not so much, just more of the natural, ingrained. >> [indiscernible] ms. cabana: not that i came across, but that does not mean they didn't. i just didn't come across it. that would be a good question to research. >> when they were sent to the front or the fact to, did it really work and do what it was supposed to do? ms. cabana: i believe so, yes. >> did you do research into cigarettes or tobacco rations? ms. cabana: there are cigarettes in the k and c rations. the k rations had 4 cigarettes. it actually talked about that originally, th