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[Translated from Japanese]
I2: The loyalty questionnaire was administered in Jerome. How did you answer the questions?
TY: I told them I did not need to answer them. It was absurd. Why now? Why did we have to do it then? I didn't get it. I would not say yes or no. I told them I was going to ignore the questions.
I1: So, they put down "no" for your answer?
TY: Right. There were a soldier and one or two Japanese there.
I1: Interpreter? Or someone else...
TY: I don't know, YMCA? Or JACL? Anyway, there were two there.
I2: In Jerome?
I1: While you were working on the questionnaire?
TY: Yes. Then, the Japanese person stamped the paper.
I2: It could have been someone from JACL.
I1: You were not aware that they put down "no" for the answers then?
TY: I didn't know. I didn't know.
I1: You found out for the first time when your sister sent it to you?
TY: Yes.
I2: So, you didn't know why you were sent to Tule Lake.
I1: Were you intending to go back to Japan?
TY: I made my intention very clear. I told them that I would like to go back to Japan. I told them that I had no intention to become an American soldier.
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