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TI: Thinking, going back to the pilgrimage, going in the future, what do you think will happen to the pilgrimage? How will that change? Same thing in terms of thirty years from now, will, do you see the pilgrimage still happening? And what will it look like in thirty years?

JY: Well, I think the next five, ten years will tell you the story of what it's going to be. It'll be dying away, or if it doesn't die in the next ten years, then it'll survive, it'll keep on going. The kids will take over and run with it, I'm pretty sure. But I think we left good enough seed behind but planted a tree, the tree's growing, and it's got a good root right now. I think, I personally think they'll keep it going. I mean, people like Glen, he's talking about reunions, but once he found out, goes to a Tule Lake pilgrimage and finds out the story and what happens and this and that, sure, it's a different camp, but still, the confinement's the same, the mess halls are still the same, the army's still the same, the security system is still the same. And travel, they couldn't travel, there's all, everything is still the same. That way there, those kind of guys will probably go that way and say, "Hey, let's see what Tule Lake's doing." Reunion guys getting tired of looking at each other. Like Heart Mountain reunion, they said they're gonna give it up. They still had it because they want to see their friends, but eventually they all died away. But Tule Lake, I think, it isn't the friends, it's the story they're going for. That's all it is, is story. The history that went with it, I think, we'll keep it alive. Well, look at Rosicrucian Museum. That stuff is old, and for years, but people still go to the Rosicrucian to see how the Egyptians live, right? I think same thing in the Tule Lake pilgrimage is how they survived the war and things. I think that might be the, to me, might be the strongest thing. They want to keep on knowing, because there's a lot of people still around, three, four hundred people still want to know what's going on.

TI: Okay, good.

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