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AI: Well, then, since that time, how... 'course, we're here today at the Tule Lake Pilgrimage --

WW: Yes.

AI: -- and I'm wondering, have you come to previous pilgrimages?

WW: No, this, this is my first pilgrimage.

AI: How did you hear about it, and why did you decide to come?

WW: I heard about it, or read about it in the Pacific Citizen, or JAC-, yeah, Pacific Citizen, and decided that having been here, I thought it would be an excellent experience, and somewhat cathartic, also. We were, I was prepared to go to, I had heard about the pilgrimage to Arkansas through a cousin of mine, and I was prepared to go to it until I heard about this one and decided, well, I'd rather come here. But at the last moment, decided to apply for this one and did come, obviously.

AI: Because this is where your family actually went.

WW: This is where my family was, and I was, and thought it'd be good.

AI: So tell me about your, your reaction to actually being here, and to what you've seen so far.

WW: I think it's been excellent, not only seeing what is left of it physically, but hearing the accounts of other people, their experiences, and also hearing through a person like Jim Yamaichi is it?

AI: Yamaichi.

WW: And he gives an excellent -- we went on the walking tour of the camp site yesterday, and we thought it was excellent. It was just, he was trying to stress the, how large the camp actually was, and I don't recall as a child remembering, really, how large it was, but I could get a sense yesterday how big it is, or was.

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