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TI: Okay, so James, we're going to now go into the second hour. And we had just, we were talking about your growing up in Hawaii and then going to Jerome, and we talked a little bit about Jerome. And so I just wanted to finish up with a couple things. So the reason you came to the mainland was to get reunited with your father. So, and I think I read someplace where a decision was made to go to Tule Lake. But right before you left for Tule Lake was when you met up with your father. Can you describe that or tell me what you can remember about your father and sort of reconnecting?

JN: Not... I really don't recall that much. I somehow recall a train and him either getting on or off. I just don't recall. I think, though, it was all of us getting on that train to go to Tule Lake, and some he boarded with us or what, I just don't recall. But I just, I don't recall seeing him, like you would think I would have a memory of him, meeting him after a year and a half of not seeing him or anything, but I just don't recall that at all. But I recall him by the train, I think, boarding to go to Tule Lake.

TI: Now, do you recall why or how the decision was made to go from Jerome to Tule Lake?

JN: Not at all, other than they called it the "no-no" camp, I presume somebody in the family put "no-no." I'm not sure... it must have been my father. It must have been he said to my oldest brother, "As the oldest, you gotta go to Japan." I think, my guess again is he had to go to Japan to find the other half of the family, the only thing I could guess.

TI: Okay, so any memories of the train from Jerome, Arkansas, to Tule Lake, California?

JN: Not really. I don't have that good... I have a fond memory of the time from Oakland to Arkansas, but I don't have that much of a memory other than boarding somehow, but I don't recall the trip itself, the train ride itself going to Tule Lake. I don't recall even getting off at Tule Lake.

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