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DG: What of your life in general, can you summarize what you feel like maybe your goals were in general?

NS: I don't think I was looking for any specific goal in my life. I just wanted to be content and enjoy living, which I have. I've done -- I've had, I've done traveling and I've been on travel committees where I've taken people around the state and around the country.

DG: Seems like you were always one of the organizers.

NS: I like to do that and I like to -- I like to try new things and so I had fun doing that. I enjoyed doing it and so whatever I enjoyed, I did.

DG: Is there anything that you would do differently if you could do it again?

NS: I don't think so. I think I did what I wanted to do and probably would have done it over again if I needed to. But so far, I think I've had a very good life and one that I enjoyed in doing the things that I wanted to do and seeing a good many places and things that I also wanted to do.

DG: Do you have any suggestions for your grandkids, great-grandkids?

NS: No, I don't. I think, maybe they'll have to live in their own world. It may be different than the ones that I grew up in so that they will have to learn to live in their world and take part in whatever activities or duties that they might have.

DG: We were talking at lunch about how many of them are doing exciting, creative things and that maybe some of the foundations that the early people, such as yourself, provided allows them to do this.

NS: Well, I think it's probably just kind of inherent more than anything else.

DG: What did they inherit?

NS: Inherent.

DG: Oh, inside of them.

NS: Uh-huh. More than -- if they had something that they had to do, that they did it and to their own satisfaction, that would be, that would be the most I could contribute to their welfare.

DG: Well, is there anything about the Japanese community that you would want them to remember.

NS: I don't think there's anything so different with the Japanese community anymore. I think that we're getting to be where everyone is more or less -- that there aren't as many differences as there used to be. Of course, there used to be differences of custom more than anything else, but I think that's gradually breaking down and that we're getting to be more community-wise.

DG: Even in Japan.

NS: Uh-huh, even with the people in Japan, too.

DG: Well, the Japanese people want to become more westernized and that's been their goal.

NS: Uh-huh.

DG: Do you think that Americans should become more...?

NS: More Oriental? I think there's some good things in both, and that if you can get both, all the good points, together that you'd have a good society.

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