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TI: So from Poston you then move to Washington, D.C., after the war, and then you did a lot of clerical work, first with the WRA and then, I think, another agency that, that sort of took a lot of the staff. So do you remember going to Washington, D.C., and working there?

CH: No. I have a feeling it just sort of happened. Days went by and this changed and that changed. I don't...

TI: There was one event that I wanted to see if you could recall, and it was when you were back in Washington, D.C. President Truman, it was a rainy day, wanted, what was the right term, addressed the 442nd, the troops, the Japanese Americans who fought in Europe came to Washington, D.C. and President Truman gave a speech in front of the 442. And it was a rainy day and in your book you mention that you were there, and I wanted to see if you remember any of that, this, I believe it was like a, I think it was a Sunday, rainy. It was in July, so it might've been hot and muggy, but you remember, if you remember any of that?

CH: Back up to the last sentence.

TI: Yeah, the last sentence, meaning it was, it was in July, so it might've been a muggy, you know, hot, muggy day.

CH: Was it outdoors?

TI: After the war.

CH: Was it outdoors?

TI: Yes, it was outdoors.

CH: I have a faint memory of... but not really. I've got to read that book again.

TI: [Laughs] And so you're now living in Hawaii and in Hawaii there are lots of Japanese Americans. Do you ever talk about the war with Japanese Americans and your experiences?

CH: I may have in the past. I don't know because I don't, I don't see them when I'm talking with them. There's no setting that would lead to that and I don't associate with very many people anymore. My age enters in, so that's basically the past. It doesn't affect the present.

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