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TI: Before we go there, I'm wondering about your other siblings and what was happening with them. I know your older brother took over the hotel in Ellensburg. Did he remain there during the war?

MH: No. He couldn't make a go of it, went back to Spokane. He just couldn't... my father could, but he couldn't. So he, he had to go back. And oh, body work, is that what you call it?

TI: Right, body work.

MH: He went into that. And it's such a shame, because he's such an intelligent guy with three years of engineering, and he started a family too soon and just... but he did a lot of community work, and he was well-respected in the community.

TI: And your older sisters, were they eventually, were they all in camp also?

MH: My (oldest) sister was already married and in Japan, and the second one, Rae, was married and had two children, and her husband Jobu Yasumura was with them.

TI: And where did they go? Did they, were they in camp?

MH: They went, they were in Minidoka, but I don't know, for some reason, they were sent down to... what is that one? Manzanar? Not Manzanar.

TI: Tule Lake?

MH: Tule Lake.

TI: Was it because of how they answered the questionnaire?

MH: I don't know. I think it's because Joe was a minister, he didn't have a church, and he was rather outspoken, I guess. I don't know. Anyway...

TI: That was Rae, and then Amy, what happened to Amy?

MH: Amy had already gone to New York; she was a nurse in New York, so she has very little understanding of what her siblings went through. My oldest sister Setsu was in Japan.

TI: So she stayed in Japan?

MH: In Japan.

TI: And the younger ones we heard about.

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