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TI: So after several months, the camp went through this process called registration. They had these questionnaires that people would fill out. Do you recall that? Do you remember that process or that questionnaire...

SY: Oh, in Tule, uh-huh.

TI: Oh, so you did the questionnaire at Tule, or did you do it at Poston?

SY: I don't know. See, that... I don't remember signing anything or being asked a question or anything like that. And I don't know if my father did that or somebody else did that for him. I don't know.

TI: Well, how about just the whole process of going from Poston to Tule Lake. What were the reasons given to you for why you were going to move from Poston to Tule Lake? Do you remember?

SY: I think they said they're going to Japan or something like that, and we had to go to Tule Lake.

TI: So when they said they're going to Japan, that meant your family also?

SY: Yes, uh-huh.

TI: So, "We're going to Japan."

SY: "We're going to Japan, yeah." [Laughs] I guess me and my younger brothers were the last to know, you know.

TI: And so how did you feel about that? When you, the reason you would go from Poston to Tule Lake, was that the people who would go to Tule Lake were going to go to Japan. When you heard that, what did you think?

SY: Well, they said, "Never oppose your parents, especially your father." So I felt, well, that's where we're going.

TI: Now, did your father or mother ever talk to you or the other kids about that decision?

SY: Well, they might have talked to the older, my older boys, brothers, but I never heard of, I never heard them say anything whether I wanted to go or not.

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