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LT: Okay, so this is part two of our interview with Eleanor Davis in Portland. So, Eleanor, we were talking about activities after Pearl Harbor at the University of Washington where you and Gordon Hirabayashi were both students. You said life continued, and you and Gordon continued to participate in activities. You also mentioned that you went to --

ED: What?

LT: You also mentioned that you went to a banquet in downtown (Seattle) together?

ED: Well, you mentioned the banquet, it was a banquet put on by Nisei boys as a group. It was put on as some organization of those boys, had a place downtown, and they had somebody providing music, as I recall. And everybody seemed to be having a very good time. I don't remember how large a group it would have been. (...) I'm making sort of a wild guess at that point. I could probably look it up and find out.

LT: You were student at the University of Washington.

ED: Yes. It was not a University of Washington event, it was put on by the young men themselves.

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LT: So after Pearl Harbor, were your parents active in support of Japanese Americans? I know at that time there were many who began to be suspicious of Japanese Americans, even those Nisei who had not been to Japan.

ED: My parents at one time kept a Japanese girl who was ill and couldn't go to the camp, they kept her in their home for a while. And I think some of the neighbors had some question about that, but they didn't stop at it, they did it anyway.

LT: So your parents continued with their activities. So your parents continued with their activities?

ED: What?

LT: Your parents continued with their activities.

ED: Yes.

LT: Okay.

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