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AI: Well, there's so much more that I would really, wish I could ask you about, and I wish we had more time in this interview, but because our time is coming to an end, before we actually stop, I wanted to ask, is there anything else that you'd like to comment on? Looking back over your experiences, some of the things that you did that you saw? Any other thoughts you'd like to share?

HM: Well, a number of times you have asked me how I felt about certain issues in the whole evacuation/relocation experience. And I can only plead a combination of total ignorance and being so overwhelmed with the adjustments and the demands of the immediate present that there wasn't much time to reflect on the kinds of questions that you asked: how did I feel about the evacuation, and how did I feel about this and that? I was just swept along in the flow of history, and it has been much more since I left the project, I have learned more and more about the events leading up to evacuation, the problems of coping with the news of evacuation, and as time went on, I began to appreciate more and more. For instance, the issues in the loyalty checks and the willingness to serve in the military. These are things that I have learned about during those three years and since then, and I wish that I'd known in 1942 what I know in 2003. [Laughs] So, I must come over as rather unfeeling, but I wasn't.

AI: Well, I thank you very much for sharing all your thoughts, your memories and your reflections.

HM: It's been a pleasure.

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