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SN: Thank you, Mr. Hayashida. We had to hook you back up because I thought of a couple of more questions I wanted to ask. This is like a little, just a couple of things I want to go back to. Long time ago, you were describing the curfew, you had to leave. And I just wanted to ask you how you felt when, before the curfew was placed, that you were able to move around as much as you wanted to. You could go wherever you wanted to. Now, all of a sudden you couldn't leave certain areas without permission, and you couldn't leave after a certain time.

SH: We couldn't leave even with permission. We asked. I suppose in case of emergency, sickness or something they probably would have. But how I felt, I felt that it was wrong, but I knew that it wouldn't be permanent. I knew it was only temporary because we would be able to prove that you wouldn't have to worry about people, at least around in this area, in Bellevue and Seattle. And it was lifted, very shortly after that. There was no, no incidents period... either us doing something wrong or the local, the American population, Caucasian population, doing some harm to Japanese population. There were cases in some parts of the country, especially in California, there have been some Japanese farms burned down, farmhouse burned down, something like that. Things like that didn't happen in the first two, three months, so the authorities figured that they didn't need to, so they lifted that curfew.

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