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AI: Well, I was wondering, as your kids started getting a little bit older, did you ever tell them about what happened during World War II or that you and the family had been put into the camps?

RI: Yeah, I think that, you know, we... I have a big family with a lot of sisters in family, so, we had lotta get-togethers and I think at those times when we mentioned "camp," they'd wonder what "camp" is and, and little by little some stories came out. But I think, one time when my youngest daughter was in high school, she had to write a paper so she wrote about evacuation. And so maybe some, some of the stories came out then. But little by little they knew something. They heard their relatives talking about it, too, so they knew something.

AI: And I was wondering if, if any of your kids ever faced any prejudice because they were Japanese American?

RI: I don't think they've, I don't think they've faced prejudice. I don't remember their ever saying anything. Well, let's see, they went to grade school, John Muir, I think there was quite a Asian population there, and Franklin High, there was lots of Asians. So, and they went to Baptist Church Sunday School, I think they were used to a lot of Asians. And I don't think that they had much prejudice. I think they stuck together with other Asians.

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