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TL: Do you remember much about once you got settled, your family became settled at Tule Lake, what your routine was like? What did you do during the day? What did your parents do?

AT: Most of the people at Tule Lake, I think they were thinking of going back to Japan. And there were quite a few boys from Hawaii who were Kibeis and they were in our block, too, so they were all talking about going back to Japan. And they made short wave radio by buying parts from Sears Roebuck catalog, and they made their own short wave radio, and they were listening to broadcast. Of course, Japanese propaganda was they were winning the war at that time [Laughs] so all the time we...

TL: So do you think, did your parents share this idea that maybe after the war you as a family would also go to Japan?

AT: Uh-huh. I think most of us at Tule Lake, anyway, thought they were going back. Not going back, but probably be sent back.

TL: And is that because people felt they wouldn't be safe or that they wouldn't be wanted in the U.S?

AT: Mostly because not wanted. Remember, some of the leaders of Japanese community like Nihonjinkai kaichou, they were picked and shipped to another camp. And George's uncle, one of the uncle, was somewhere in Arizona, yes. So we all kind of thought we were going to be sent back to Japan these people, too.

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