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DG: The workers, what did they do?

RM: Let's see, the workers. Anyway when we came back, they were afraid to come to work for us and so the veterans came and said, "We'll work for ya."

DG: Okay, now, this is after you came back from the [Inaudible]. Let's stay with Pearl Harbor time. One of the things that I forgot to establish earlier is who were your workers, the twenty or thirty people? Were they hakujins or Japanese or...?

RM: Well, some Japanese too, but mostly hakujins, yeah.

DG: Mostly hakujin. And what about your family, did you all work in the business at that time?

RM: I did, but -- you mean my father and mother?

DG: And sisters or whatever.

RM: No, they didn't.

DG: Your mother -- oh, so now you had the cranberries also so she was working over there.

RM: Yeah, right.

DG: Okay, so then the workers came to work and some of them were afraid to come.

RM: Uh-huh, this is after the war.

DG: Okay, now, what about right after Pearl Harbor. What were they -- you had no trouble with your workers then?

RM: I don't think so. I kind of forgot what transpired, but I don't think there was no, nothing.

[Interruption]

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