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Title: Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Interview
Narrators: Ayako Murakami, Masako Murakami
Interviewers: Dee Goto (primary), Alice Ito (secondary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: December 14, 1997
Densho ID: denshovh-mayako_g-01-0030

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DG: What... how did camp affect you the most?

AM: Affect me?

DG: Affect your life?

AM: I think...

MM: You could face any situation and live through it.

AM: They make the best of any situation that comes along.

DG: Would you protest now?

AM: What?

DG: Would you protest?

AM: Protest what?

MM: The war?

DG: No. Going to camp.

AM: Protest what?

MM: Protest the, going into camp.

AM: Hmmm.

MM: Maybe now, but not then. We're too young then.

AM: I wasn't ready to protest. I had -- you had to be obedient.

DG: Why?

AM: You had your father, your mother. Your whole family with you. You had to follow them around.

DG: Why did you have to?

AM: Why? Family.

MM: Duty.

AM: Duty. Uh-huh. I would do... if I left them and went somewhere else I would be worrying about them. So might as well be with them. That's the feeling I have.

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