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AI: Well, now then, a little bit later that year in 1943, that's when the so-called "loyalty questionnaire" came out.

BN: Yes. That, it was a, really I thought it was a really a sudden thing, and I answered my twenty-seven, "no" and twenty-eight with a blank, and a "if" on there. "If, if my rights were restored," I would answer this number twenty-eight, but otherwise, I would not answer. And then, people who answered "no-no" were soon sent to Tule Lake, the segregation camp. And I was left behind. And then, I don't know how long it was after that -- they called me into the administration office and asked me if I was going, wanted to change my answer, my twenty-eight. So I said, "No, I'm gonna just leave it as it is." So now I'm gonna just answer it, "no." So my answer became "no-no." Then they sent me to Tule Lake, I believe it was in, early part, January of '4-, 1944.

AI: Now, in the meantime, what had happened to your father?

BN: Oh, my father was released from Santa Fe to Poston. Then my mother, we were separated from my, I was separated from my mother because she wanted to be with the grandchildren. And my dad and I went to Tule Lake.

AI: So your mother stayed in Poston...

BN: Right.

AI: ...with your sister, her husband and children.

BN: Right.

AI: You and your father went to Tule Lake?

BN: Yes.

AI: And now, what was, when you came to Tule Lake, what was your impression of the camp?

BN: Well, well, really I was sort of happy that I was together with my other friends that said "no-no." Yes, I was truly happy about that, yeah.

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