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MN: How much impact did the camp experience have on your involvement later in life with all these progressive movements?

LW: Well, it took some growing up, some development on my part because as, the more we got into civil rights issues, the more we got into what youth and young people were saying about the camps and calling attention to the issues that, or the experiences that we went through in camp, the more I began to realize this is, our camp experience is, has to be a part of our lives. It is a part of our lives, a very important part, and it ought to shape our spirits, our hearts, our minds about anything that puts people down or treats them as unequal, treats them unjustly. So the camp experience is really related to the, all the other issues that we need, we should, we ought to be facing when people are treated unfairly, unjustly. It's very much a part of my life and my commitment.

MN: Are you involved in any projects right now?

LW: Well, as much as possible, support as much as I can the movements that are taking place, like the issue against the Muslims and the kind of treatment that they are going through, being treated as the enemy and being jailed without charges. So those are the things I support as much as I physically can. They only other thing that is going on is that Marion and I, my wife and I, are involved in a documentary about our lives and our, hopefully this will be helpful to people. So when the documentarian asked us about doing this a year and a half ago, we both said, well, we're getting on in years and we don't know, our energy is low, and we're not, we don't think there'll be too many people interested in seeing a documentary about us. But she said, "Well, maybe this is the, the last thing you might, you can do as a legacy for your family and the community," and so we said, "Well, okay, we'll go with it." So we're just, we're about, close to the finish line in terms of that, so that's one thing that we're looking forward to and hopefully it will have some meaning and some help to the, both the church and the, a wider community.

MN: Well, I want to thank you for also doing this Densho interview for us, and...

LW: Well, again, I guess it's like, if it's going to mean something to people, have real meaning for people, sure, glad to share what we have to share.

MN: Well, thank you very much. I have asked all my questions. Do you have any other thing you want to add?

LW: No. Hopefully all that you're, Densho is doing and the interviews that you're doing will be as helpful to remember the internment experience so that things like that in any form will not happen to any community, any group of people.

MN: Thank you.

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