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MN: Now, after a few months you were reunited with your father, was he able to see his, the grandfather before he passed away?

YH: No. I think he'd already passed away before my father was released from prison camp.

MN:: Now when your father returned, what did he tell you about where he was?

YH: Gee, I just remember that one day he was in our apartment in Jerome.

MN: What was that reunion like?

YH: Well, I was glad to see my father 'cause I didn't know where he was all that time.

MN: Did you hug him?

YH: No. And then... yeah.

MN: Now, years later you found out where your father was.

YH: Yeah.

MN: And he had shared with you about an incident on the way to Santa Fe.

YH: Yeah.

MN: Can you tell us what happened on the way to the Department of Justice camp?

YH: Yeah, he said they had to make a stop and get out and walk around, and he said it was, the soldiers told 'em it was time to get back on the train so he started to go back on the train. And then he thought there was another man who didn't understand English, and he was shot by the soldier. And I think my father knew who that man was, but I can't remember his name.

MN: Do you know if your father knew if he passed away or not, after this man got shot?

YH: Well, I think he did. He was killed.

MN: He wasn't just injured; he was killed.

YH: No, he was killed.

MN: And then you mentioned earlier about how you had found out why your father was taken away?

YH: Yeah.

MN: Why was he taken away?

YH: 'Cause he was the, he was the treasurer of the Japanese language school.

MN: Now, once your father was reunited with the family, what did your father start doing?

YH: He said that this, this wasn't a good place for all of us to be, so he immediately started to try to find out how we could get out of Denson.

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