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BK: In closing, what would you like your children and grandchildren to know and remember about internment?

JT: I'd like them -- well, I'm surprised that... well, before, they didn't know anything about it and we had to, we had to tell them everything, whatever we could. But I couldn't tell them the parts that I'm saying now. I could tell them now, but I just didn't say it at the time. But that it could happen again and they need to be careful about everything and stand up when they think they should stand up for their rights and not be so quiet about it. That you're a person, a citizen, just like anybody else in the U.S. and your rights, their rights are your rights. And that I don't think that it, if you think it can't happen, they better think again. And really... but they're pretty comfortable in the way they feel about it and they're not, they're not angry or anything like that. But they need to be watchful and just express themselves and be good to each other. That's basically what it is and they're really good kids, all of 'em. So I think that's it, just be good to their elders. [Laughs] Take care of me when I get old, older.

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