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DG: There were some Justice Department women at Santa Anita also, and I'm surprised that maybe your mother didn't go to Santa Anita but they didn't, right? Your mother and father were taken early.

MH: Yes.

DG: And they went to...

MH: All over. [Laughs] Roseburg and all kinds. And Crystal City just ending, husband and wife together.

DG: But did they go together?

MH: No.

DG: They were separate.

MH: They all separate camps. And then last, sent to family camp at Crystal City. Also, Buddhist church bishop at that time, he was, too.

DG: So your mother was never brought to Santa Anita, though.

MH: No Santa Anita.

DG: There were some other women that were there similar situation to your mother, I understand. You don't know about them. Tell us a little bit... then we're backing up again. Your father was taken early because he was a minister?

MH: Together.

DG: Oh, he went the same time you did?

MH: No, no. Early.

DG: Right after the war started, he was taken by the FBI.

MH: See, all Mitsubishi people -- what they call that suitcase and everything -- came to my brothers. All upstairs, their things.

DG: This is at your father and mother's house, and your brother worked for Mitsubishi and so he had a lot of things stored at their house. And so you think that that's the reason why they suspected them and took them early?

MH: [Nods] That's father. Mother's case is looking for the Japanese school, Pomona school, name is Pomona, but the school is ten miles away, Upland. So they couldn't find the Pomona school in Pomona so my mother teaching Japanese to Sunday school children. So they took her.

DG: So they took, so they took all the people who were Japanese language school teachers.

MH: Yes, most.

DG: And your mother's name showed up, although she, she wasn't really a teacher, right.

MH: No, not what they call, Japanese school. Not the...

DG: Right. It wasn't a Japanese school, but she just happened to teach them Japanese.

MH: That's right.

DG: The Sunday school children in Pomona, and this isn't, this is way far away from where your parents had their ministry in Gardena, right? Pomona is about, you said ten miles or so away or more probably.

MH: More.

DG: More than ten. I think maybe twenty. And then, and she just -- so she was taken at the same time your father was taken?

MH: That's what I don't remember anymore.

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