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DG: Let's stay with Pearl Harbor and a little bit more, describe to me what your family was talking about... and were you worried?

SS: No more than... anyone else, we were worried that Japan might come and bomb again and...

DG: What did you think Japan was?

SS: The country that bombed us.

DG: Were you aware enough of what kind of country it was?

SS: Not really.

DG: Did you think it was your own people or somebody else?

SS: Just figured it was Japan. It was...

DG: You were American though?

SS: That's right.

DG: Okay.

SS: And to me, they were the enemy.

DG: Okay, that's what I was wondering.

SS: 'Cause I didn't figure myself as a Japanese, Japanese from Japan, and I guess... I was not aware until we had to evacuate; my dad got pulled in. Then all of a sudden I thought, wow... we're not Americans then, although my I.D. that we had to all carry said I was a U.S. citizen and to be shoved into camp, because we've read about the evacuation, on the mainland, the U.S.

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