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ME: Tell me about some of yours and Shiro's experiences after the war. When you came back, you guys were together, weren't you?

BY: Yeah.

ME: Where?

BY: In Chicago. Well, even in a -- right after he came out of the stockade, we went over to visit him. And well, that guy, he would, he, he would, he was the best. I mean, everybody liked him. A very compassionate person. He honest, very honest. And he's a good leader. He's also, he's also what the Japanese say yasashii.

ME: What does that mean?

BY: Very compassionate, and he's a good family man too. He has all those wonderful daughters, granddaughters. And I'm glad they all over here.

ME: Yeah. How do you feel being here today at the reunion and seeing his family members and everything? How, how do you feel?

BY: I feel sad because Shiro never missed a reunion. He came to, oh, this supposed to be his fifth reunion, I think. And his wife and daughters came in four different reunions. And it's the first time we're not gonna see him. Even, we also used to see him in Las Vegas and Ren -- Reno. And he would always volunteer for any kinda, anything that you want him to do. He's easy guy to get along with, he even go singin' or dancin'. And master of ceremonies, he would take part. In fact, I, I have some pictures at home showing him doing the hula dance, and also singin' with the boys.

ME: What did you guys do together in Chicago? Did you go to school together?

BY: Yeah. We went to school called Chicago Tech. It's a refrigeration and air conditioning school.

ME: Oh, okay. What was that like?

BY: We met by accident at the school. I didn't know that he was registered there.

ME: Oh.

BY: And, yeah, it was a pretty good school. I wouldn't say it a good school, it's a pretty good. Yeah, we enjoyed it there. We used to go baseball games together after the school. And we used to know a professional baseball player.

ME: Oh.

BY: Used to play for the Detroit Tigers. And when the Detroit Tigers come down to Chicago we used to go out, get together with him. His name was Joe Earutt, I think.

ME: What, what did you guys study at this school?

BY: Air conditioning and refrigeration.

ME: Okay, okay.

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