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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-01-0032

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AI: Well, is there anything else you want to say? Anything else you think future generations should know about, remember?

TM: Who?

RT: Well, the future generations.

TM: Future generation?

RT: Yeah. What they should know.

TM: Future generation... you know, is time is a change so much and hate to think about the next generation. When I look my grandchildren, great grandchildren, look back, so much change. I betcha I said something, half the things they don't believe it. It's, now when I was a kid and kids now, different. Because when I was a kid until grown up, everything is change so much. It's like wagon. When I are kids, start from horse and wagon. Then come to the airplane, big car, now they even go up to the moon, that much change. And I don't know how much more change, but young kids, you tell more that to them, "Phooey," they think.

AI: Well, thank you very much for telling about your life and the history.

TM: Well, now only thing I don't know how long, but still is hanging, that's all I can say. [Laughs] That's a long life. Ninety-five years, that's a long life. I be, couple more months and I be ninety-five.

AI: Well, thanks a lot.

TM: Yeah.

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