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MN: You personally now, the next day, you had to go to school. It's a Monday. And you have to take the ferry to get to school. What happened at the ferry depot?

JM: We crossed the bay, went into the, the station first. They locked the door, and they wouldn't let us out. And we're junior high school kids. Somebody called the school, and the principal came and got us released, so we went to school.

MN: How did that make you feel to be locked up like that?

JM: We thought, man, it must be really bad. Then when we got to school, everybody, were really (sad), they never said bad words to us and they all worried about us. It was really amazing.

MN: So you're saying the non Nikkei students didn't harass you.

JM: No. All the Caucasian...

MN: Why do you think they didn't harass you?

JM: Well, we were real solid with the rest of the student body. We all participated in floor sports and a lot of 'em excelled, especially in high school. Junior high school we didn't have too many sports, but we're real close to each other.

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MN: So you had no problems at school?

JM: No.

MN: From the students or the teachers.

JM: No.

MN: Now, tell me what happened to your father's net.

JM: Oh, they sold it. They sold it to somebody. I don't know, I don't know too much about it. My uncle handled it 'cause my father was in the prison already.

MN: What about his boat?

JM: It was Van Camp's boat.

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