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AI: So then in the meantime, then, a year had passed that you had been in Japan. Of course, you, Tosh, had returned back to Seattle. But, so how --

MY: And Joe, Joe wasn't in school yet.

AI: Right. Right, you were still very young. By the time you returned to Seattle, you would have been maybe about three and a half, or four years old, Joe?

JY: I guess so.

MY: Four.

JY: About four.

AI: Four? And then when you returned to Seattle, what grade were you going into then?

MY: They put me back, they put me in the same grade that I was in when I left. I didn't lose any time, actually, which was --

TY: But then, but then you were a year behind me after that.

MY: No, we were still in the same grade.

TY: No? Same class?

MY: Yeah. Remember, remember we had that big argument about the fact that we were supposed to graduate together? And then you didn't want me to graduate so I stayed in school?

TY: You keep telling me that, but I don't remember that at all. [Laughs]

MY: Well, there's no reason that one would stay in school, high school for an extra year, just because you want to? [Laughs]

TY: I didn't remem-, I just don't remember. [Laughs]

MY: Why would I stay in high school for another year? Just because I liked high school so much I didn't want to graduate?

TY: Yeah, I know. But I just don't -- no, it's just, I'm just telling that I don't remember that part at all.

MY: But anyway, Dad said, "Tosh said he doesn't want you graduating with him."

TY: Oh. I think Dad felt that, he was just using me as an excuse. [Laughs]

MY: Yeah, yeah. So he said, "You have to stay in high school for another year and graduate next year." And that's how it happened -- I still happened to be in high school during Pearl Harbor.

TY: Okay, if it makes you feel any better, right in front of the television, I'll apologize to you. [Laughs]

MY: [Laughs] But then, what happened with that was that I was still in high school during Pearl Harbor.

TY: Uh-huh, yeah, I remember that, yeah.

MY: But then, but then I immediately quit school because we were short of money.

TY: So did I, yeah.

MY: And I went to work. But that was okay, because I already had enough credits to graduate anyway, you know, I didn't need that fifth year. I was just waiting for --

TY: Yeah, but didn't you get, didn't they give you a diploma in --

MY: Camp.

TY: -- in camp, right?

MY: Yeah.

JY: Did you get a diploma? Or did you get --

TY: I graduated already.

MY: He graduated. He was at the University of Washington.

JY: Oh, you did graduate. Oh, yeah, that's right.

TY: I was a freshman at UW when the war started.

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