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JA: And the Hashiguchi family requested their son to come to Minidoka.
MH: That's right.
JA: And maybe people would understand more why, if we know... can you explain a little bit more about the family history of the Hashiguchi family?
MH: Oh, yes. Dad and Mom Hashiguchi are from Miyazaki, Japan, and they had two sons in Japan. No, three, three sons in Japan and one of them was drafted in the army or navy, I'm not sure, but he was killed in the Philippine Islands. And the other one was a teacher in Manchuria, and he was, died of malnutrition over there, but he had a wife in Miyazaki. And then the other son was working for a bank in Yokohama Specie Bank, and he was in Japan. And the other two boys were in Seattle.
JA: Right. But the three sons in Japan... while in Minidoka, the Hashiguchi family in camp really had no knowledge of...
MH: No knowledge whatever. We were quite concerned and everything else, but we knew eventually that his daughter-in-law would eventually write or tell us whatever is happening over there, if we can get communication with them.
JA: They didn't even know if they were in the military or not.
MH: No one knew nothing, until it was all over with and we were all home in Seattle, then he found out.
JA: So, like your parents didn't know the condition of their daughters.
MH: Our daughters were alive or anything.
JA: Here they had sons who were more likely to be inscripted into the military because of their age.
MH: That's right.
JA: They had no, no knowledge whatsoever.
MH: Whatsoever. No, we didn't.
JA: And then, but the two sons that were with them were in the U.S. forces.
MH: Uh-huh.
JA: And, and so, the one son that was married to you.
MH: Yes, uh-huh, so he didn't have to go in service because he had a family and then he had Mom and Dad, my mother and dad he had, too.
JA: So for that reason, they took comfort at least in having the one son with them.
MH: They wouldn't take him. Uh-huh, that's right. Uh-huh.
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