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DG: Lot of what your grandparents, probably, like not wanting to go into the service and things like that... although, same thing wasn't it? They went along but they didn't go so far as letting...?

SS: They must have been strong, yeah -- they must have been strong-willed maybe, somehow maybe, we got. How they were. And yet now, my sisters, my brother and I, we have different views on the evacuation. I think age has a lot to do, too.

DG: Can you tell me a little bit about how that's different?

SS: Well, see like my sister, Patsy... never took, about being in camp, the consequences of anything seriously because she was younger. And then she, in fact, it was just recently we were talking and she said well, I worked for the Tule Lake police department you know and all... and I said, do you know who got you the job? And she said, I got it. Because I said, do you know who you worked under? And she said, I forgot. I said, Jean Sakata. I said, she got you the job because I asked her. I said, in fact at that time, I asked lot of my friends if there were any openings because in camp you had to have connection to find a job. And she said, "I didn't know." You see, so...

DG: It took a lot of things for granted.

SS: Yeah, and like their reasons and all, so probably you should talk to my brother too... Richard. Because he has his and even if you grew up in the same family and all, you come from different view.

DG: Let's finish talking a little bit about your getting married. And what was the scenario there?

SS: Ken came back in...'49? You have to ask him I think. In time so that he wouldn't lose his GI Bill. And then I came back in December of 1950 with my parents and we got married in '51. And he wanted to transfer to UW here so we came. Right after we got married he came in September and I came in December of '51.

DG: Were you worried about coming back...stateside?

SS: No, because I didn't think I was going to be here. Ken said we were going to be here only two years and then we were going to go back. And we never went back. And now, I don't think I want to live in Hawaii. We have a house there, in Maui, but I don't think we'll ever live over there permanently.

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