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TL: Do you remember some of the activities or even the purpose that you saw for yourself as a citizens' club?

YB: It wasn't too long after that that I got married.

TL: Yeah.

YB: And, well, we'd, we'd participate in the Fourth of July parade, we'd always get first prize, twice we got first prize.

TL: Oh. Did you have a float or...?

YB: We had a float. We'd work on a float, all, a couple of days and two nights to put it together.

TL: Uh-huh. Do you remember what the subject of the float was?

YB: Always Japanese, of course --

TL: Yeah.

YB: They'd wear their Japanese kimonos. And, my, I call him my little kid brother, Iky, who is a Mason and married and had two, three lovely children. And he would always come to me for all his problems. But he was in ROTC, so he'd wear his uniform and I'd wear my kimono. So it was a combination of the two, bring the two together.

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