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MA: You'd mentioned that your brother was in the Japanese navy.

SO: Uh-huh. I asked my sister about that, too, and she said she didn't know too much about him either, living, being over there all that time. And I said, "What's the matter with you?" Said, "How do you expect me to know?" I was bawling her out the other day. Well, all she knows is he graduated from college, and he took some kind of a course or whatever, his specialty was in communications. So she thinks that's what he was in, in the communications department, and after the war, that's why he was sent all over the world. He'd been over to, in the Middle East, setting up new telephone exchanges, that's what he'd done for a living.

MA: But during the war, he wasn't like a, in combat?

SO: No, he wasn't in combat, she knows that. But he, she said, she told me that she thought he was in communications, because he, telephone, radio, telephone, things like that. 'Cause he's been over to Ceylon, you know, and places like that, setting up new telephone exchanges.

MA: Were you able to communicate with him at all?

SO: No, not until (he met), he made a good friend with this GI, and he took care of everything, he was kind of a go-between between him and us over here.

MA: So your brother met an American...

SO: Over there, uh-huh.

MA: ...soldier.

SO: Soldier, yeah. He was from Spokane at that time, and said that, so we sent, we used to send packages and things, everything through him. He was enjoying himself during the war, he didn't have any difficulty.

MA: And what about your sisters?

SO: Well, she got married, and they, they, I think... yeah, her husband died.

MA: During the war?

SO: No... oh, how old was he? Must be about, about fifteen, twenty years ago, I guess. They have a small farm they live in. That's all they done.

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