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AI: Well, is there anything else you wanted to describe or discuss or comment on?

KK: Well, I think out of all this experience I want to pay a tribute to my folks, the Isseis, and also I want to thank people like Collins and also the 442nd because it made that a little easier because there were so many discrimination in California, and they helped to talk to the people and it changed in the sense that found out about the 442nd, they were more lenient. And I also am proud of the people who resisted too like the Hirabayashi and Korematsu and Yasui 'cause they were the champion of the redress movement. And I'm very thankful for coming out with people like you who is persuading us to tell our story. I finally feel a closure or whatever, because I could honestly speak about all this happening and it makes me feel good. And the other thing is I'm thankful for America, the Constitution and civil rights because at the end, that won out.

AI: Yes. Well, I thank very much for sharing your story and spending this time. I really appreciate it a lot.

KK: Sure, okay.

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