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TK: We're almost near the end. Can we go to 1980, and there was a redress and reparation campaign.

MT: Uh-huh.

TK: Do you have any thoughts about that? When it first came up, did you have any ideas that it would become successful or what kind of thoughts did you have about that?

MT: Well, gosh, I don't know. I knew it was a big, very big project that they were gonna work on at first when they were talking about redress. And, but, I really was hoping it would go through, but about that time I really knew that it was gonna take a lot of work, lot of time, lots of months and months. And I wasn't discouraged but I thought it was a tremendous project for them to, to try to complete and so what they did is really tremendous, isn't it? You know, it's just intricate things that they went through to finally get the redress. And then the presidential apology.

TK: Was your mother alive at that time in 1980? When did she pass away?

MT: She died in 1977.

TK: '77.

MT: Uh-huh.

TK: Was life any different for Japanese Americans after the redress was signed, in your mind? Have you seen any noticeable differences at all?

MT: No, I don't think so.

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