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AH: Were there any other siblings like you and your brother who were -- I know at Heart Mountain there were, for example, the Emi brothers, Frank and Art -- but of the Minidoka thirty, were any of the other ones who were given jail sentences and ended up at McNeil and things, brothers, or were you the only two?

JA: Let's see. Offhand, I can't think. There might have been another brother, Kajimura might have had brother, two brothers, I mean, they were brothers.

AH: But this would have made it even stronger for the treatment that your mother got after the war. That it wasn't just that she had one son, but there were two sons who ended up in prison and could be viewed as a draft-evading family.

JA: That's the whole thing.

AH: I mean, if there'd been one or the other...

JA: That's right, that's the attitude they took. And the parents of the people who lost a son took an even stronger attitude. And whatever they said to my mother was not very pleasant. Me, I could take all of that. My mother -- it was getting to her.

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