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DH: Is there anything else you want to add to this story?

KN: I can't think of anything right now.

IN: Well, in our later years, in spite of all our experiences, bad, I think in the main it was -- I can't look back on my life and say that it was all that bad. In fact, living here and living in this country, I've got nothing but a good feeling. My kids have gone to school and enjoyed the benefits that they have and so no, I have never harbored any real bitter feelings about our experience. It was a tough time and all that, but outside of that, this has been a great place, a great country to live in.

KN: Yeah. I wouldn't live any place else.

DH: What do you want people to learn from this experience? I hope that the project can be used as an educational tool to educate people about the Japanese American experience. And what would you want them to come away with then from learning about what happened to this community?

KN: Well, I hope that before anything like this happens again that they would really think it over, study it well, and not just make a hasty decision. Hysteria and racial prejudice and just bam, you're gone. And if they could do that, it would be more sensible. So, I'm sure that the country has learned a lot through this experience because it was a big mistake. So they will try harder not to let it happen again, I'm sure.

DH: Anything else you want to add?

IN: Well, for myself I would, I would hope that from our experience -- I would not even grant an interview if I didn't feel that it would serve some purpose that later on, I mean that something like this will not happen. And I will say that I am more cynical about government and so forth, but in spite of all that, this is the place I want to live out my days.

DH: Thank you.

KN: You're welcome.

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