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DG: Then you finished your one year.

MH: Service, finished and everybody going home. So my father was assigned to (Seattle) Baptist church. Inside the camp, he was retired once, but so many people, church wanted him so badly and so also he thinks for my children's sake he better work. So he came to Seattle Baptist Church.

DG: So he was asked to come to Seattle instead of going back to Gardena?

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: Did he ask to do that or he was just assigned?

MH: Assigned because in camp, went to -- which camp was it? He went to Idaho camp.

DG: Minidoka.

MH: Minidoka camp for this Baptist church members where... and then they had a service. He went several times. That's why they wanted my father so badly. And then head of quarter there used to be missionary in Japan knew my father very well. Those people are top, and then assigned my father to Seattle.

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