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BN: Now in the 1970s and 1980s there was this whole movement for redress and so forth. I guess, was your father alive at that time?
HM: [Shakes head].
BN: So he wouldn't have, he didn't qualify.
HM: No. He didn't qualify because I think he had died already. And anybody who had died --
BN: What year did he pass away?
HM: You know, I have it down in that folder, but I've forgotten.
BN: Were you aware of the redress movement and what was your feeling about that?
HM: Yes. Well, I thought that was a good thing, and that the government finally realized that it was wrong and apologized, trying to right the wrong. I think my sister was able to get her redress.
BN: Because she was at Manzanar.
HM: Because she was at Manzanar, wrongfully. She was in Manzanar. Eventually, they let her go out, but she was there for a while.
BN: I know you and your husband have been benefactors, supporters of a lot of cultural, historical organizations in Hawaii. Why do you feel that that's important, the culture and the history being preserved and passed on?
HM: Well, I mentioned that we had, we had to go to Japanese school, and at Japanese school, we learned all the values, Japanese values that's over there in the other room.
BN: That's what they're drilling.
HM: That's why they're drilling. And those things were ingrained in us, and I think they're very good values, which I'd like to see the future generations adopt, too. It's something that I think they should be able to... in fact, my husband is a member of a Nisei values club (at the) University of Hawaii. And even the hakujin feel that it's something valuable that should be passed on. And I think we both feel that we'd like to... we could teach and hope that the future generations all adopt the values that we learned as children. So I think that's why we try to encourage being active in these organizations.
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