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JA: Okay. Now, Tule Lake is considered one of the internment camps that was a "problem."

MH: Yes, very big problem, yes.

JA: That there was many opposing opinions of very strong beliefs.

MH: That's true, too.

JA: Did that affect you at all?

MH: It didn't affect me because I was outside, but my brother and my mother and my younger sisters were there so I was quite concerned hoping that they were okay because hearing all the riots and all these things I was hearing about. And so, soon as I got into Minidoka, then we called them and asked them to be transferred to Minidoka, because they are not the "no-no" group, they're just there yet. As soon as they can be released, to send them right over to Minidoka, so they did. So they were able to come right over to Minidoka. So, which made it more -- so we won't have worry, we were all together then after that.

JA: Now, earlier we spoke of the Nikkei community in Bellevue and you had a lot of interaction with the Caucasian community. And even after the war broke out, friends still were friends.

MH: That's right.

JA: Were the Nikkei from other geographical areas as well-assimilated as those from Bellevue?

MH: Uh-huh.

JA: Did you have much interaction with people from other Nikkei in the camp?

MH: No, I don't think so.

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