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JN: Do you remember anything about your parents filling out the "loyalty questionnaire"?

LK: I don't remember that except, well, see my father did rejoin the family in Minidoka, I think in Minidoka, maybe it was in Manzanar, I can't remember which. But my mother, I don't remember, but I took my mother and we went to see, I think it was the wash... it was one of those plays, see my memory is not so great. But anyway, when we saw that, then she burst into tears at this one scene where the father is saying, no, he's not gonna sign that oath and then the mother breaking. And my mother said after, she said, "That's just what Daddy did." My father said, he said, "Hell no, I'm not gonna sign that. They sent me away to jail and for no good reason, and I'm not gonna... why should I?" and he was just mad. And my mother said, "You've got to." He said, "I don't care. I'll go back to Japan," is the way my mother said to me. And my mother said she never ever went against what my father said, but she said that was the one time she said she actually got on her knees and grabbed him around the legs and said, "You've got to re-sign that." I mean, she was so upset when they, when he first signed it, and then when they gave them another chance, and so then he did relent. And so, she, she said that was the... anyway, that play affected her because it must have happened to more than one couple. But she told me that, that that's what happened. But see, I didn't... even with the closeness of the barracks, I don't remember, yeah, any of that happening. So it must have either been outside or... but she told me that that's what happened.

JN: Again, they probably waited until you weren't around.

LK: Right, I know, I think, uh-huh. Yeah. They, they did, she did a lot to protect... yeah, and I think, "Oh, I'm so impulsive and I'm just totally unlike that." It's amazing to me that someone could have the strength and self control to... yeah, think about all that. Yeah, but anyway...

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