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Title: Mutsu Homma Interview
Narrator: Mutsu Homma
Interviewers: Dee Goto (primary), Becky Fukuda (secondary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: August 27, 1997
Densho ID: denshovh-hmutsu-01-0030

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BF: How did your husband treat those three thousand who were lined up? That seems like an impossible task.

MH: He was in tears. Quite a... couldn't do anything. And Niseis dentist, seven dentists there because they are supposed to be go to Gila or Arkansas or somewhere else, but they don't want to go such a place. So he followed the wife, wife's name, and he came not a dentist.

BF: So they didn't identify themselves as dentists, so...

MH: Not identify the dentist, just ordinary people. But after finished, my husband, they comes in and then take the own patient, take the money. Los Angeles people.

BF: So they didn't really help your husband.

MH: Uh-uh.

BF: With the rest or the camp people. Your husband must have been working around the clock.

MH: [Nods]

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