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MN: And so from... so I'm assuming he went back to Seattle, and then he made his way down to Montebello?

HY: Yeah. First he came to this United States by himself, then he went back and got married and brought my mother with him, you know, and he came back to the United States again. Then from Seattle, they moved to, out here in the southern Cal area.

MN: And that's where Kiyoto and you were born.

HY: Yes.

MN: What did your parents do in Montebello?

HY: Truck farming.

MN: What's truck farming? What kind of crops?

HY: Well, vegetable like beets, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach.

MN: Tell me what Montebello was like when you were growing up.

HY: There was nothing out there except coyotes and rattlesnakes, that's about all. [Laughs]

MN: Now, at what age did you get the name "Harry"?

HY: That was at the, when I first went to school, grammar school. Teacher asked me what, you know, instead of my birth name, she wanted me to select a name, American name. So I told her, "Harry."

MN: How did you come up with "Harry"?

HY: It was an older, there was a neighbor that was older than me named Harry, so I named myself Harry.

MN: But at home, did your parents call you Katsuma?

HY: Uh-huh, yes.

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