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TI: I want to talk about your father when you came back. What, what communication did you have with your father?

VW: Well, I went over to see him, and I guess he was happy to see me, but I'm guessing, 'cause he didn't say a whole lot. And I asked him how the farm was doing and he went on, he showed me a new tractor that he had, a Ford tractor now, not Fordson, but Ford tractor. And you push a lever and the plow goes down, you push another lever and the plow comes up. I thought, "Wow, things have sure changed a lot on this farm." And so it always kind of made me think that, "Well, I'm glad that it's that way now instead of back when I was walking with a plow and plowing back with horses." And there were no horses anymore.

TI: But what about any conversation about the war and what you had done in Europe?

VW: Never, never discussed it with my dad, never.

TI: Did he ever know that you fought with other Japanese Americans?

VW: No. I never told him. I was, I was very quiet about who I was.

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