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AI: Well, also, you had mentioned earlier that your brother Tom had already been drafted into the U.S. army.

RM: Yes. Uh-huh.

AI: So he was already in the U.S. army before Pearl Harbor was bombed.

RM: So I understand, I listened to other soldiers say what happened was they, most of 'em, Kibei were discharged. And, but my brother --

AI: But Tom was not?

RM: -- was a Kibei but he was a City College graduate and he was doing the typing and he was the company clerk. So what they did was send him to Boulder City, Nevada, there, and was the medical department that made dental lab there. So he cast the ring, unauthorized, but he was material to make a ring, cast, like make a false tooth, he made that and he showed it to me. But in the meantime, send him to Fort Leavenworth, not the stockade but the administrative, that's adjutant general school there. So he went there, then he became company clerk.

AI: That's so interesting.

RM: And then what happened was he was sent to Camp Savage, but not as a student because he was a high school graduate in Japan and a high school graduate here, college graduate and junior college in the City College here, so made him company clerk, and he understand Japanese part, too, help 'em out. But his job was keep track of all these student.

AI: At Camp Savage?

RM: Camp Savage. So when I went there he was company clerk there, so I saw him, my brother, there.

AI: Well, we'll --

RM: Of course, I knew him few, little before because he was with me first came to... well, that's nice meeting him, but I have to be studying. Of course, I pretend to study but I didn't have to because I knew, I knew everything in standard Japanese.

AI: Well, we'll come to back to that --

RM: So what I did was I concentrated on other things and read reference manual, field manual and things like that came.

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