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MN: And you had some sort of harassment incident at Twin Falls with the veteran?

CH: Yeah, yeah, that army guy. You know, army, two time, in town we go eat, there was one Japanese restaurant over there, No Delay Cafe. You know they had over there? We go over there, and there's lot of veterans with crippled guys and everything. They had a hospital over there. Then they're shouting, pencil, "Hey, you people, I don't know what people you are, what are you?" "I'm a Japanese American." "I hate Japanese." "Why?" "Look at my leg," one chopped off. "Buy me a pencil." I said, "Why I got to buy a pencil?" "Yeah, you're a dirty Jap," he said. We start taking, he start swinging that thing around, the crutch, you know. "You know what? I could beat the hell out of you." We told 'em, "You're crippled, that's why we don't do it." But you know that other veteran, they understand. They come and, "Hey, leave these people alone. They ain't got nothing to do with the war." Then they let us go. And some other time, we walked to town from that farm, we walked to town. Walk into town, one guy, car coming, he said, "Looks like it's gonna hit us." So we got a tomato and we throw it at that car, you know." The car turned around like that, came back, put a gun, hit right here. [Indicates temple] "What are you gonna do?" "I came from Guadalcanal. I'm gonna kill you guys, I killed a lot of Japs," he tells me. "I'm not a 'Jap,' I'm a different kind of 'Jap,'" I told him. You know, then we start arguing and this and that, but he went away. I said, "Go shoot that gun." You know, that kind of thing.

TI: This was in Twin Falls?

CH: That was in Twin Falls, Idaho.

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