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SY: So when did you meet your husband?

NS: In West L.A.

SY: In West L.A. So when you came back...

NS: Yeah, West L.A., uh-huh. I had... his sister was coming to our church, and that's when I ran into her, she told me to come on over to her house one say. And then she said, "My brother's coming," she said, and "I want you to meet him." I said, "Oh, yeah? I didn't know you have a brother." And she said, "Yeah, I have a brother, and he's single," she said, trying to match me with her brother. So I said, "Oh, okay, I'll meet him." And then that day I went to her house, she told me to come over. And so then I met my husband, future husband at that... I didn't know him then.

SY: And what was his name?

NS: Shotaro Shimotsu. Sho, they used to call him just Sho.

SY: And where did he spend the war years?

NS: He was in the army. He was in the army, yes. He was taken before the war. So all that time he was in the army.

SY: So he joined the army before the war?

NS: Before the war, yeah. He was taken. He was lucky 'cause he didn't go in the battle. He was always inside.

SY: So he was in, he stayed in the United States.

NS: Yeah, yeah. And then remember they were taking Japanese to be in the 442nd? Well, he didn't join that one. He was already in the other one, MI something. What was that?

SY: MIS?

NS: Huh? MIS? Yeah, yeah. He was in that one.

SY: But he stayed in this country, he didn't go overseas at all.

NS: No. He didn't get to go. He was working in the office all the time, see, that's why. He was an office worker all the time.

SY: So he volunteered, then, before the war? He volunteered to go?

NS: I guess so. He never did say anything about that. But I think he, that's why he was in, I think.

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