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Title: Rick Sato Interview
Narrator: Rick Sato
Interviewer: Alice Ito
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: March 2, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-srick-01-0018

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AI: Well now looking back, you've had quite a bit of experience in a lot of things, been in a lot of different places, do you have any thoughts? Any things that, ideas, thoughts of lessons, words that you'd like to pass on especially to younger people, younger generations?

RS: Well number one I'm going to say, that they, they should have education so that if they don't use it, it could come in handy at anytime, later on. With us, we didn't have education, what can we do? So that's, that's the reason I decided to go to college. Otherwise, I'd be farming right now I think. So...

AI: And anything else that you would like to add?

RS: Ah, well I hope there's no more evacuation thing like that, I hope that never happens to any race. Because I don't think that's, that's right. You know, being born here, and you're a citizen -- they shouldn't be able to just because there's a war, they shouldn't round you up. And I guess that's about it; that I could...

AI: Thank you very much for your time.

RS: That's it?

AI: I really appreciate it.

RS: Well I don't know how good I was, or how bad I was or whatever, but I'm just telling it the way it is I think.

AI: Appreciate your thinking.

RS: Yeah, okay, well thank you.

AI: And we've been talking to Mr. Rick Sato, and this is Seattle, Washington, March 1st, 1998. I'm sorry, March 2nd, 1998. And I'm Alice Ito at the Densho Project.

RS: Thank you.

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