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AI: Well, looking back on everything, is there anything else that you'd like to pass on? Anything else that you think that future generations should know about, or think about, remember about discrimination, about what happened?

RT: Oh, that's a pretty big topic, isn't it? It was, like I say, the event itself is a milestone as far as I'm concerned, and it's just too bad because, of course, it's not considered that, I don't believe. I don't even know if they have any remarks on that, any sections on that, in the history books today, even. Well, what can I pass on? Discrimination. I think that it's, I think it's difficult for any person when he suffers discrimination, but I think if you can raise your families, if you can give them the character, the strength of character, so that they can withstand discrimination -- and I think that that is what you have to do, is try to keep -- don't slough it off, but I think make them aware that this is discrimination. And more and more, people are becoming a little more aggressive about fighting discrimination, and that I think is good. It's unfortunate that it still exists, but it does. And I think that the kids, as you raise them, especially since most of us are the ones that suffer it, we don't, we don't actually do the discriminating, although I'm sure there is some of that. But nevertheless, I guess that you have to try and improve things. Yeah. That's the main thrust, I guess, as far as discrimination goes. It's amazing. I do believe that it works sometimes in strange ways. Because you find discrimination in many areas. And it's just trying to be aware that it is indeed discrimination. Yeah.

AI: Any other thoughts, anything else that you'd like to add?

RT: Oh, gee. Well, I think we've been, we've been really lucky. Our family has been lucky, and that may be strange to say considering what we've all discussed here, but we have been lucky. We've been able to live through it, and we've stayed strong as a family, and we, I think, have, we've all learned. We've all learned, to some extent, what, what we went through. 'Cause at the time you don't realize it. It's only after examination that you realize what did happen. And so I would say that we're all, we're all okay as a family, and I think we have tried to learn from our experiences. That's for sure. I just hope that future generations will learn, too, and know that you can get through things like this.

AI: Well, thanks very much for sharing your experiences. We really appreciated it.

RT: You're welcome. Well, you're welcome. Glad to do it.

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