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TI: Okay, so talk about those weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, you're back at Wapato, you're putting crops in...

MS: Uh-huh, not knowing, and we're feeling we're safe. But one day, somebody came and kind of firebombed us, and that kind of scared us and we began to realize that people weren't quite as nice as we thought. And we began to hear... we felt that we were safe, that we would not be going, being evacuated or any problems like that.

TI: Right, but let's go back to the firebombing. So describe what happened.

MS: I don't know, because I was asleep, and the family took care of it and I didn't hear. It was in the front, and I think they took care of it right away.

TI: So you slept through this.

MS: [Nods]

TI: Okay, but describe what you know about the incident.

MS: I don't.

TI: And where... I mean, it was at your house?

MS: Yes, in the front is, we had a little porch.

TI: And do you know about what date that was?

MS: I don't know that.

TI: But it was like in the early part of the year, like January, February?

MS: Yes, about January or February, yeah.

TI: So you had a front porch, and then someone, when you say "fire bomb," what was...

MS: I don't know. Kara knew all that, but I didn't.

TI: Do you recall what kind of damage there was?

MS: Uh-uh. I don't think there was much damage.

TI: And then for you and your family, how did that change how you felt in terms of safety?

MS: Well, I think the idea that there was a war going on, but we kept hearing that, I think around that time they began to talk about evacuation. And we kept thinking that we would not be evacuated because we were 145 miles from the coast. And so we were just busy taking care of business, getting the crops in and so forth. And Kara knew a lot more. Kara was home, too, I mean, she would go off to school or work. But I didn't know much. Being six years younger, eight years younger, six years younger, had its place.

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