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TI: You got married on April 4, 1942.

HH: Yes. By that time, the five-mile curfew was on, so we got word to Reverend Andrews, and my sister arranged the wedding to be held in the chapel, First Baptist Church in Tacoma. So my sister, Yaeko, was one, she was still not, I think she wasn't even eighteen yet. But she arranged everything. She just arranged everything because we had, to get the place, somehow she knew there was a Baptist mission on Fawcett Avenue, just close to our Buddhist Church. And I don't think she attended that, because she was more or less attending the Buddhist Church, but she knew, and that lady, missionary, Wyse, W-Y-S-E, she arranged to have the chapel, and Andy, Reverend Andrews came and we just walked from the grocery store, which is not too, I think about two blocks or so from the First Baptist Church in Tacoma. Anyway, that's where we had our wedding.

TI: Do you remember that day and who was there and what kind of day it was?

HH: Yes. Because of the fact that Shiz's family was not able to come anyway with Andy, so it was only Reverend Andrews and my family, and on the way, I met a friend of mine, Yoneo, that he was already in the service. He was a private PFC, I think it was. And he was walking around the street there, and we said, "Hey, I'm getting married," so he was the only guest. [Laughs]

TI: Oh, that's funny. So you just happened to see him on the street, and so you said, "Come along, I'm getting married, come and join us."

HH: We're on the way to getting married, so he came and he was in uniform and everything.

TI: So it probably, in your original mind when you first thought you were going to get married in September, you probably were thinking probably of a larger wedding, at least both families there and everything. So was this wedding ceremony a little bittersweet? You're happy to get married probably, but just not having your friends and family there.

HH: Yes. Well, especially Shiz's family. I mean, they couldn't come out, or any of her friends from Seattle.

TI: Do you recall how she felt about that? Was she sad about that?

HH: No, I didn't see any reaction, although she was very concerned, I guess, about the fact that her family couldn't be at our wedding.

TI: Well, her father probably was pretty wise, because, so as the weeks went on, Tacoma got their notice that they needed to be removed.

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