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DG: Now, so you relocated mostly single people not so much families; is that right?

NS: In the East, yes, because the families wanted to come back to Seattle, and wherever they -- they were more familiar with Seattle; they probably left possessions here and they probably still owned their land here.

DG: Was there a lot of talk about coming back to Seattle?

NS: Oh, there's always lots of talk. After all, it was home for a lot of people, and everybody wanted to come back home.

DG: Was there very much discussion about the unfairness of the whole thing?

NS: The what?

DG: Unfairness of the whole situation?

NS: I doubt it.

DG: Why would that be?

NS: Well, I think they just took it as a matter of war and that people were not in too friendly a situation and were taking advantage of the war; and, therefore, people were like that. But, then there was always the opposite too, who were more kind than they ever were. So it was those people who welcomed the Japanese back to Seattle.

DG: Number nine was "Fair treatment in restaurants and stores."

NS: In the stores?

DG: And restaurants.

NS: And restaurants? Well, I think with the stores and restaurants, it was a business with them; people had to eat and people had to shop and buy things. And so I don't think that they had too much problem with discrimination at all. And if you were refused service in one place, you went to the next. But I don't think there were too many places where one was refused service.

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