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BF: Do you remember feeling more tension building in your own neighborhood or community?

CK: Yeah, I think in the sense that all activities, social activities stopped. We didn't -- and then the curfew came, of course. So that was a very confining, depressing thing that made us feel that we were suspect. That we had to be very, very careful of what we did. And of course, having heard about the FBI picking up people and in those days, that was quite a terrifying thing to have the FBI visit. So, there was that feeling, very depressing kind of a feeling during that time.

BF: Did you talk about it much with your brothers?

CK: No. My brother had a very tight group of friends who got together. And we had that sort of relationship... brothers and sisters didn't talk very much together like some families and there wasn't that closeness. So, it's a little vague as to what we did during that time. There was a feeling of when we did talk with friends, you know, about what's going to happen. And so when the orders finally came through, there was a period of time when some of the people, I remember... I won't say I remember, because I heard it afterwards, the feeling that, "Oh yeah, the Isseis are going to have to go, but we're citizens and it is not gonna affect us." There was that feeling. But of course, eventually it turned out that didn't matter.

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