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AI: And then what did you do after your service?

KK: Well, I continued going to the art school, get my degree, and when I came out went to Chicago. I got married when I was going to art school and moved to Chicago and worked there for ten years.

AI: And started a family.

KK: Oh, yeah. Started my seven kids. [Laughs]

AI: Well, now as your kids were growing up, did you ever tell them anything about what happened during the war years?

KK: No, I didn't because -- I don't know, I think it was a negative which I didn't feel like burdening them with that so I never did. But just recently I told the kids when I got them together I said, I asked them why they didn't find out what happened to me during World War II, and they says, "Well, maybe you seemed like you didn't want to talk about it so we didn't ask." So they don't know anything about it. So maybe next time we have this pilgrimage I'm gonna try and bring them so they will understand it more.

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