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TI: I want to go back, so your, your vision of this, of this place at the Minidoka camp is a place where, where in some ways, people can meet both from, like, a Japanese American perspective, but as well as from different perspectives where they can actually, as you mentioned, talk about these things. And, but for that to happen, your sense is right now it's too one-sided. It's only telling the view of one side, and isn't, isn't telling the full story.

DK: Right.

TI: And so that, that's where you're coming from, and if that could happen, then you would be supportive of that kind of, kind of place?

DK: Oh, yeah. I mean, this is a free country.

TI: Even the, even the millions of dollars that it would cost? Our tax-paying dollars?

DK: Well, I would cringe a little, yes. [Laughs]

TI: I do, too. [Laughs]

DK: But if the story is, truth is told, truth is freedom. It'll make you free. So yes, I'd be in, in the overall picture I'd be in favor of it, because now, it's spreading hatred, and that won't get you no place.

TI: And you think there's that potential if, if you feel, if the people, like, locally feel that perhaps it's a little bit too one-sided, then you think perhaps that would actually be more of a divisive or polarizing type of situation rather than a unifying one?

DK: Right.

TI: And that's, that's what people like you think.

DK: Yes, that's right. You bet.

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