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TI: So let's now jump to December 7, 1941. And how did you hear about the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

FK: I think, it was a Sunday, I think it was, and we were at a basketball game. And on the way home, I think it was on the way home, or just before we got on the bus, and we heard about it. So we all hurried home, and then listened to the radio, you know, that's all we had to listen, and so we were kind of shocked. Didn't know, my mother or the Isseis didn't know what was gonna happen, you know. But soon, soon after that, it was very evident that, you know, there was a lot of discrimination. But at the school, in the school, we didn't feel that way, while we were still going.

TI: So talk about that. So the next day is Monday, you go to school, what happened? Did anything happen out of the ordinary?

FK: No. To me, myself, there didn't seem to be anything extraordinary or anything like that. I didn't feel it, anyway.

TI: Let's see, you were about seventeen years old, about that time?

FK: Yeah.

TI: And so you were what, like a junior in high school?

FK: No, I was, no I was a senior, 'cause I turned eighteen in April, so I was a senior. And what happened was when I went to Japan, we were delayed, and we didn't get home 'til, it was the start of my senior year, and I didn't get home 'til November. So in those days, you used to be able to go back to school in January, the semester started from September to end of December, and then January to June. So I got back in school in June. And that's why I went to Minidoka to catch up the one credit that I had to get.

TI: Oh, that's interesting.

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