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DG: Why would you go to Missoula to see your father?

TS: I hadn't seen him for a long time. After the war he was immediately interned. But I felt, we felt that my dad was not guilty of anything, and also why should they hold him, so we talked to a few of our hakujin friends and I just said, I want to go see my father, see if I can get him out but it wasn't that simple.

KS: And bring him home.

DG: Were you starting to be aware... weren't there restrictions? Could you travel?

KS: Not then, not then.

TS: Not then but I think there was no travel restrictions when that emergency meeting was held. But after that, to get married, people who attended our wedding in Tacoma had to get travel clearances.

DG: How did you plan the wedding?

KS: Very quickly! [Laughs]

DG: By phone?

KS: Just about.

TS: We didn't have very many people.

KS: We couldn't. I had two friends of mine who were my maid of honor.

DG: Why did you start planning a wedding?

KS: Because we knew we were going to be evacuated and people were going to be evacuated according to where they lived. Everybody had to be with their own families and my family was in Kingston, and I hadn't been living with them for quite a long time, but they were still there. And if I was going to be evacuated, I would be evacuated with the Kamikawas and by then, we knew that they were going to be going down to Pinedale, California and the people in the...

DG: What month are we talking about? January?

KS: February, and we knew that people around Fife, which is not Tacoma, were going to Puyallup along with the Seattle bunch and we could foresee a separation. We had been engaged since long before, the Fall before, and we were going to get married when he finished law school, which was the next June. But it just meant that well, we were going to, we could get married now or just forget it for quite a long time. We didn't know how long. At that time, there were a few of my friends that were going to drive to Pullman and get into Western, I mean Washington State. So I told Toru that either I go with them and we just hold, not get married for a while, or let's get married now and I'll just forget about going to Washington State or any place, wherever. It took a little... [Laughs] A few telephone calls but we decided to get married anyway. So we set the date for, I think it was about the last week in February, and then the emergency meeting in California came up so he went down to California and I thought, "Oh my, we're not going to get married it looks like!" [Laughs]

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