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DG: Okay. So then you were there, though, during the loyalty question?

GF: Yeah, I was there. Yeah, I said I'm loyal, what the heck. A lot of my friends said, "No." They were sent to Tule Lake. I know there was one fellow from the same school in Japan, he went to Tule Lake, and he caused a lot of trouble down there. I think it's... I don't know what he did, but he was sent back to Japan.

DG: Do you think that was good that some of them --

GF: I don't think that's right. I think since they're in the United States, if they wanted to be loyal to Japan they should have never came here. They should have stayed in the Japan. But essentially in the United States, the feeling because you had been educated in the Japan so you have a feeling against Japan -- I mean, for Japan, you can't help that. But I said boy, I sure hate to go in the army and face my friends. [Laughs]

DG: That's for sure.

GF: Yeah, that could happen because, you see, another Japanese fellow, but probably like our case, they were sent to Germany so it wasn't too bad, but if you're sent to the Philippine Islands or Japanese army was concentrated, it'd be tough. It would be tough. I see the reason why they send most of Japanese to Germany. Translators, you can't help it. My brother was in Philippine Islands as a translator. He was a second lieu-y. What the heck. But you have to be loyal to United States.

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