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DG: So then you went back and then what happened?

TS: Back home.

DG: You were home, you were getting ready, did you know...?

TS: After that we heard about possible evacuation and exclusion, an emergency meeting of JACL (was called) down in San Francisco and (I went with) the delegation from Puyallup. Puyallup and Tacoma chapters went down to the emergency Council meeting. There we found out that (there was) nothing we could do. It was already decided to exclude us; there's no question about it. So the main thing, the main subject of discussion was what to do. The decision of the National Council that time was to help our people comply with the exclusion order.

DG: What were your feelings? Did you go along with this or did you have any thoughts about it?

TS: We were informed that we couldn't do anything. We raised the issue of having military emergency declared instead of exclusion, where everybody would be under the control of military but there wouldn't be any exclusion order. They (said), "No chance."

DG: This was in December still or January?

TS: It was January or February. No, it was in March.

DG: No, it couldn't have been.

TS: No, February because Kiyo and I were planning to get married in February, I think, and this emergency meeting came and she got madder 'n hell at my (breaking our wedding date). [Laughs] Then we postponed it to March 15th.

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