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Title: Ben Uyeno Interview
Narrator: Ben Uyeno
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: June 1, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-uben-01-0041

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DG: So is there anything in your life that you would do differently?

BU: No, I'd still be a doctor, but I may do things differently as a doctor. But I don't have any, any misgivings of what I've done. That's a long time to try and be a doctor, nineteen years.

DG: That's right. Is there anything that you'd like to add as far as...

BU: No.

DG: You're going to get a copy of this tape and so your kids will be able to see. So you can...

BU: But I've had my fun. Fun is a funny thing, it doesn't have to be great athlete or various other, just as long as you do things that you want to do and do things that are useful. So I've done that so that's, to me, that's all that's necessary.

DG: Great. Well, we're here. Today is June 1, 1998. And you were born in 1918 and so that makes you how old?

BU: Well, I'm an old owl. I'm going to be eighty this year, but I haven't missed any of it.

DG: And times have changed. You've seen a lot of change.

BU: Yeah. The only thing I'm going to miss is the fact that Mariners baseball team is not going to go to the World Series.

DG: Well, maybe they'll make it. [Laughs]

BU: Well, anyway.

DG: Thank you very much.

BU: So it is.

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