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DG: Do you remember how you were treated by non-Japanese once you were outside of the camp?

AS: What's that?

DG: When you were working on the farm, on your cousin's farm, did you ever interact with, like, non-Japanese? And how were you treated?

AS: On the farm?

DG: Yeah, or was it Moses Lake?

AS: Oh, I was in Weiser.

DG: Oh, Weiser. How did the community there treat you?

AS: Well, some places were bad and some places were bad. Like I, I went to Montana, too. They wouldn't even let us in the grocery store. You know that? It's hard to believe, isn't it? So we went to Safeway and Safeway said, manager says, money... he didn't care what money came from, who it came from, so we bought, bought our groceries at Safeway. It was an I&P, I think it was an I&P that kicked us out of there. Well, I didn't do nothin' wrong. But you can't do that to a Hawaiian, you know, a Japanese. We had one in Montana there, he was lookin' at the magazine and the guy kicked him out. He says, "We don't want no Japanese in this store." And that Hawaiian, he picked up the whole magazine rack, threw it up in the air. [Laughs]

DG: What happened to him?

AS: They just kicked him out of the store. But he took the whole rack and... he was a big guy, you know, I mean, he was a he was a big Japanese. You weren't gonna fool with him. He took the whole thing, lifted... [laughs]

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