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TI: So, Tad, I'm going to start -- we're winding down now, we're almost at the end of this. So you came back to Seattle and you started your own family. So why don't you tell me your children and kind of in the order of your three children and their names.

TK: Their names?

TI: Yeah, the names of your three children. And I can help you.

TK: Carol Ann is the oldest.

TI: And she was born in 1943.

TK: Some, I guess so. I can't...

TI: And after Carol Ann is, is... I think...

TK: Susan.

TI: Susan was born in 1947. And Carol, backing up, she works for the Social Security Administration? And Susan is a nurse at Virginia Mason. And then after Susan?

TK: Jimmy.

TI: Was born in 1949. And unfortunately, my notes show that he was killed or died in a motorcycle accident, that he was racing. So, I'm wondering, so he was about twenty years old when he died, so this was late '60s when he died. Do you recall what happened and how he died?

TK: All I know is that the race was over and he was going back to the... I don't know what they call it. Where they take the bikes back.

TI: Kind of the pit area, maybe?

TK: Yeah, pit area I think it was. I don't know he was going to pit area or going, going back to his truck, I don't know which way. But this other guy that was, he was still on the track and he was going full blast, full speed. And then ran right into him when he was crossing the track, I think so. As far as I know, that's the way it happened. I wasn't there, so...

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TI: So that must have been very difficult for the family to have lost Jimmy at such a young age. He was only twenty.

TK: Yeah, I don't know exactly know how old he was at that time.

TI: So I'm just going to kind of, you know, end by asking, there's so much I didn't cover after the war, your jobs, and your family life, and I was wondering, to end this interview, is there anything else that you would like to talk about before we end the interview?

TK: I don't think so, as far as I know.

TI: Okay, one of the things that I want to mention is, kind of how we, I sort of learned about you. It was at your grandson's restaurant, Kaname, that I first met you. Where it's interesting that this restaurant is named after your sis-, I'm sorry, your older brother. And then how your grandson now runs this restaurant and how you're there every day helping out. And just to let you know, it's such a nice feeling for me to walk in there and see this multi-generation operation.

TK: I don't do much helping out, but I eat there. [Laughs]

TI: Well, I've watched you, because you help out, too.

TK: Well, with the water and stuff like that.

TI: You're cleaning tables and greeting customers.

TK: I try to keep out of the way. [Laughs] I eat there, so....

TI: Well anyway, it's such a nice feeling when I go there. And I just wanted to let you know that it's a real pleasure for me to have talked with you on this. And so thank you for the interview. And, and if you have just a little more time, we have a little map and I want you just to point out a few things, so we're going to take a short break and then come back.

TK: Okay.

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