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Title: Tom Matsuoka Interview
Narrator: Tom Matsuoka
Interviewer: Alice Ito
Location: Ridgefield, Washington
Date: May 7, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-mtom-01-0030

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AI: Well, I just had a couple more questions. One question I wanted to ask you was about the redress. Do you remember when you got your redress in the mail? Did you remember?

RT: Your redress. You know, that 20,000 dollar no are yo.

TM: Oh, you mean vegetable...

RT: No. No. From the government. Yeah. Yeah. Are.

TM: Oh, 20,000 dollars what I did?

AI: No. What was your reaction? How did you feel?

TM: How I did?

RT: How did you feel about it?

TM: I think they should give. Myself, I lost way more than that. I lost the house and lot of stuff, too. Even I worked so doggone hard and during the Montana life, forty-eight years, that was way more than 20,000 dollars.

TI: That's right. Everybody had to start from scratch all over again.

TM: You know... gee, what you lost, some is really priceless. I had that house insurance, but those days insurance really small, next to nothing.

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