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ME: Okay. As a, I'd like to get a quick final thought from everybody, just the legacy of I Company. If you could just tell us how you would like I Company to be remembered. What you would like future generations to know about I Company.

KO: It's, I think, the bonding effect, feeling of being a member of Company I. And the, we hope this legacy will continue, even among the sons and daughters to go, to continue. We proud that we one of the most active companies in the 442nd.

HY: I would like everyone to remember I Company as a very brave, gallant company. And I hope that legacy continues. And we have my, our good, good younger generation like Kari, and -- by the way, the chairman of this reunion is Guy Koga, whose father was (an) I Company member. And also the memorial chairman, (Alan) Kubota, who's Sadaichi Kubota's son. And things like that will keep good legacy on this company -- I Company, anyway. And I hope it continues.

TA: Well, like, hope that we can continue to keep a happy, big, happy family, as long as -- and if we go away, then I hope the sons and daughters would carry on, and maybe later on, maybe even the grandchildren. But that's the reason when, this evening, when we prepared the banquet, we encouraged the sons and daughters to turn out, and you going to be quite a surprised, surprised that quite a few are there, the grandchildren. Even I was surprised when some of the names. But I hope that one big family would continue.

FM: I think that Kenneth, Bruno and Terry has covered all the important factors about I Company. So I just leave it at that.

TI. Well, thank you. Well, that's --

ME: Thanks, guys. Thanks a lot. Thanks for your time.

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