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SY: Well then, how did you hear about needing to be evacuated?

MN: Well, later on, because we didn't evacuate right away. Oh, I think Pearl Harbor was in December, and we didn't evacuate 'til March. But I didn't sign up for winter quarter, so I was at home.

SY: Why didn't you sign up for winter quarter?

MN: Well, I wouldn't be able to finish anyway because we'd be evacuated, and so it was...

SY: Oh, so you...?

MN: There was war, and it was just not, not the thing to do.

SY: So when did you hear about being evacuated?

MN: Well, I think, I'm not exactly sure. It was just the Isseis that were going to be evacuated at first. And then they decided to evacuate everybody that had one drop of Japanese blood in 'em. They'd have to go. So...

SY: So what happened to Pearl and Hiromu then?

MN: Well, they were separated. And she and her boys stayed on the property and ran the business. And he went to Puyallup and then to Minidoka with the rest of us.

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