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AI: Well, I wanted to ask you, why did you come to this Tule Lake Pilgrimage?

JY: Oh, my brother, I just support him. I went to Bismarck to support him, too. See, almost in, almost '88, 1988 or something, I got tired of hearing all the, they're saying, read in the paper that the resisters are chicken and coward for not going. They don't understand that we was fightin' for our rights, too, in a different way. I got tired of hearing that, so I, I spoke up. When I spoke up, then they said I should keep on saying it. So I went to Manzanar, I gave a speech over there in Manzanar of what I went through. Then I started coming to these pilgrimage to keep it open.

AI: Well, if you were going to, if you were going to give some advice to young people today, what kinds of advice would you, would you give them? If they have some hard choices to make?

JY: Well, don't get influenced by anybody else. Just do what you, you think is right, don't do what other people tell you to do. Use your own judgment, don't be scared. Just face it, what's coming to you, that's all. You won't, you won't regret it later.

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