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DH: So it must have come as quite a shock to him when then they started having guns seized and dynamite seized.

KN: Uh-huh. In fact, he was taken for a day or two because we had this big Buddhist shrine, and the FBI said that was our short wave set. We had a short wave set in there.

DH: They thought the Buddhist shrine was the short wave set.

KN: Uh-huh. That they didn't even examine it or anything. They just said, got a short wave set in there so took Dad, and besides he had dynamite and stuff like that because we were clearing land.

DH: You had to use the dynamite to clear stumps off the land for that strawberry farming.

KN: Uh-huh, because we didn't have bulldozers and if we needed a bulldozer job done, then we hired. But then in those days, we didn't have much money to hire people like that so mostly we did it with dynamite and all the help, human help, you can get, and horses.

DH: So they took him for a couple of days?

KN: Uh-huh. He didn't have to go to Missoula or anyplace. I don't know where they took him, Fort Ward, Seattle, just a day or two.

DH: Were you home when the FBI arrived?

KN: Uh-huh.

DH: What was that like? Was it scary?

KN: Scary, scary, petrified. Didn't know what was going to happen.

DH: What happened? They came and they knocked on the door and they showed up?

KN: Uh-huh, and they kind of looked around.

DH: And then they arrested him or they just took him?

KN: They just took him. They just said, "You're coming with us," and he couldn't pack anything, just coming with us.

DH: What did your mother say?

KN: I can't remember what she said. I think she was so scared. I don't think she said anything.

DH: Yeah, yeah.

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