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TI: So now I want to go to December 7, 1941, that Sunday. Do you remember that day and how you heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

TK: I didn't think too much of it, but I'm not sure if we heard it on the radio or what, but yeah, on Sunday morning I remember hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but I didn't think it would affect us at all, so it didn't...

TI: So you didn't think too much about it?

TK: I didn't think too much about it.

TI: How about the fact that it was Japanese that bombed Pearl Harbor? Did you think, oh, there might be some trouble or anything like that?

TK: At that time, no, I didn't think so.

TI: And how about your family, your parents or your older brothers or older sister? I mean, did they have any comments or thoughts about what happened?

TK: I don't recall, because at that time Tom was in Pullman going to college and I think Ray was a senior. But I didn't think too much of it, and then when we went to school the following day I don't remember if there was that much reaction or anything.

TI: So it was almost like it was so far away that there was no...

TK: Nothing was that much different as far as I was concerned.

TI: Now, on Bainbridge Island, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the officials started picking up some people on Bainbridge Island, the FBI.

TK: Correct.

TI: Were you aware of that when that was happening?

TK: Yes, I heard that, I heard about that, that certain people were being picked up.

TI: How did you hear about it? Where did you hear?

TK: Maybe from my parents or, I don't know.

TI: Now, was your father or mother ever concerned that maybe your father might be picked up or anything like that?

TK: I don't, it didn't occur to me, no.

TI: Okay. Yeah, they picked up a few, I'm not sure how many exactly, but generally they were community leaders.

TK: On Bainbridge? Yeah, community leaders or church people.

TI: What's interesting, and you probably didn't even, as a kid, realize this, but Bainbridge Island was the very first community under Executive Order 9066 to be removed from their homes.

TK: Right.

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