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Title: Harvey Watanabe Interview
Narrator: Harvey Watanabe
Interviewer: Stacy Sakamoto
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: November 4, 1996
Densho ID: denshovh-wharvey-01-0022

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SS: All this time, while you were overseas, and you and Edith were already married at this point. Were you able to communicate with her, to tell her...?

HW: I did a poor job of it. But whenever I did, the censors would get a hold of it. We couldn't even say there were a tree or a river near our camp. They'd cut it all out.

SS: What do you think your letters looked like by the time she --

HW: I don't know. I never saw the letters after the censors got a hold of 'em. Crazy. But it was a demanding job, though. I mean, it was go, go, go, go most of the time.

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