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[Translated from Japanese]

KS: When did you first start coming to the Tule Lake pilgrimages?

TT: What?

KS: This Tule Lake pilgrimage, when did you start coming to the pilgrimage? You said this was your third time?

TT: Yes, this is my third time.

KS: Why did you decide to come the first time?

TT: Well, I guess, this was where I was during the war, so I probably wanted to come and see what it was like.

KS: How did you feel when you first came back?

TT: Hmm. "So this is where I was," I thought. When I was here during the war, I couldn't see... I didn't even know there were mountains here. I didn't even know where I was. They pulled the blinds down, so I couldn't see.

KS: Well, are you glad that now you've come back to visit?

TT: Yes. I'm glad it was such a beautiful place. Even though there's no barracks now. It's such a wide-open place, and it's amazing how they sent so many tens of thousands of people here. America is such an incredible country.

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