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SS: Are you active in the local Japanese American community?

EW: Not that much, we belong to the White River JACL, because it's a smaller chapter and we know all the people in it, and enjoy their company. And, let's see, I'm active in the church. I don't know, we do quite a bit, in fact, we have done more traveling, and we've gone out on trips for missionary construction. And I was able to go to Fukuoka last year, and I went to Belgium the year before to help build. And my husband's been out on two more trips that I haven't gone on. But I think you have to do things like that to keep (feeling self-worth), you can't let yourself dig a hole and lie in it. You have to get out and do things.

SS: These trips are affiliated with your church?

EW: Yes. Uh-huh.

SS: Sounds like you give a lot back to the community.

EW: Well, I hope so. They've given us, and we need to give back, you can't live just for yourself. You need to give and help as much as you can.

SS: Is there anything else?

EW: I don't think so. I thank you for this time with me. I don't think my story is exciting or anything like that. But I do, I wish that it had been different, that we wouldn't have had those years taken away from us, that maybe things would have been different. I don't know. But it was a hard thing to go through. And I hope and pray that it won't happen again to any race or ethnic group of people. And I just get really angry when I read about people being harassed, and in my own little way, I try to say, "That's not right."

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