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BN: And then you mentioned that in putting together your testimony, you interviewed family members and so forth. What was their general sense?

KM: Well, I only called my uncle because my uncle Yuzo in Santa Maria, because he's eldest, and I figure he would probably know the best. But I find out later that I don't think they really knew that much. I mean, how many acres of farming they had, and whether they owned it or released it, they didn't know, and why my grandfather was picked up, stuff like that. But I got some information from him and was able to talk about my mother and what she went through. She's the oldest daughter, citizen child, so a lot of responsibility fell on her.

BN: But was he generally in favor of...

KM: Oh, yeah. You know, he's the kind of guy that can talk about anything. So he didn't even have... he could have had a reaction, but I don't think he did. I don't think he said anything negative. I have a feeling he probably supported it, I have other relatives that that didn't, but I think that's why I called him, because I knew he was kind of more open-minded about stuff like that.

BN: And your dad is...

KM: Kibei.

BN: ...around also, right?

KM: Was around? Yeah.

BN: Did he have a, ever express any interest or sentence about redress?

KM: Well, my father was always supportive. I mean, he didn't say he was supportive, but he came to a lot of the DORs or the Day of Protests. He would translate stuff if we needed it. To be honest, I don't know if he had... I don't know what his feelings were, because he wasn't in camp, his family was in camp. He did lose something, his stand, and his family lost their market. He never expressed anger about it, though, but I think he was generally... but not passionate, but just like, yeah, shit happened, kind of matter of fact. I don't think he said a lot about it. Maybe I wasn't listening, I'm not sure.

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