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LH: Well, as a final question and you've talked about it a little bit before, but for people who will be watching this interview and also reading from it, what do you think are the important lessons to learn about the Issei experience and the Nisei experience? What are the things that you think people need to understand and realize about the Issei and the Nisei?

FG: Well, that's a very, that's a very difficult question to answer. I think one of the things is that I always have felt that we that we, as Nisei, need to, should never forget the sacrifices and the efforts that the Issei, and the hardships that the Issei went through. And that because of them, here we are. I think whatever the Nisei went through, I'd like to see the Sansei be aware of and I think -- I don't think the word is appreciate, but I think that there's a lot, there's so much to be proud of, that, of our past that I think for a time the Nisei lost it. They lost the pride in being who they are, and I would like to see the younger generation, the generations that come from now, be glad that they have, and be proud, be proud of their ancestry, their background, of the people that have gone before.

LH: Well, thank you very much. This has been an interview with Fumiko Uyeda Groves. Today is June 16, 1998, and we're here at the Densho offices here in Seattle, Washington. Thank you again.

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