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DG: Where did you go Kiyo?

KS: I had an apartment with my two sisters and...

DG: In Seattle?

KS: In Seattle, yes. I didn't get fired like I thought I might be and continued to work. And because it was near the Christmas season, the Women's University Club had many festivities already planned, war or no war, these parties were already (scheduled). So my sister and I were very busy fixing food and working there. After the holidays, there was a group called the Tolan committee that was supposed to have had hearings all up and down the coast. They had hearings down in Los Angeles, San Francisco and they were going to have one in Seattle so we contacted as many of our friends that we could who would testify before the committee that the Japanese do not need to be excluded from the West Coast, that we were all loyal American citizens.

DG: Who notified you about these hearings?

KS: They were in the papers.

DG: Where were they held?

KS: They were held in Justice Courts in California, because the one in Seattle was in the Federal Building.

DG: What was the, in the news at that time?

KS: Guadalcanal, and the Americans were losing the war at that time. The news on the war was very... Manila was invaded and...

DG: So at that same time, Toru you were in Eureka and heard that news about the war, right?

TS: Uh-huh.

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