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TI: So your father was picked up in February by the FBI, was being held first at Griffith Park, then Glendale, and then from there sent to, probably...

KK: Well, Glendale is where the, where they took them to get on the...

TI: The train?

KK: Train, to take him to Minnesota, I think it was.

TI: Okay, Minnesota.

KK: Was it Wisconsin? Wait, where is it? I have to look at the book and see what...

TI: But one of the internment camps. And so this happened. In the meantime, your mother and the others in the family had to start getting ready to go to first an assembly center, then a camp. So let's talk about that. What was going on, in terms of... First, what was the impact on the family by having your father removed? I mean, how did the family cope without your father?

KK: Well, my sister just stepped in and started taking over, with my mother, the two of them, my sister Hana and my mother, just kind of took over and they handled things. My brother Howard had gotten married, and so he had his own wife and his family and he was out. Stanley and the rest of us were all younger so we had to help, but then the decisions were made mainly by Hana and Mother. And so a lot of the -- we had very good friends in, haole friends in L.A., and they took a lot of our items that we wanted to keep, and they kept them. Each of the girls had a big carved chest from China that my sister Hana brought over for each one of them. She brought three, but she never brought me one, I said... I was too young to be thinking about that. But anyway, so they filled those chests with items they wanted to keep, and one was a uniform for, my grandfather's uniform was in there. I have it now, and I'm going to take it to L.A. and see if one of the family wants to keep it, if not give it to the museum.

TI: And where was... I'm sorry, this was your uncle, your uncle's uniform? Or your grandfather's?

KK: My grandfather's, my grandfather's.

TI: Okay.

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