Densho Digital Archive
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection
Title: Tatsukichi Moritani Interview
Narrator: Tatsukichi Moritani
Interviewer: Frank Kitamoto
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington
Date: February 25, 2006
Densho ID: denshovh-mtatsukichi-01-0013

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FK: Did all your brothers leave, leave camp, or, and did your mom stay in camp, or how did that work?

TM: Yeah, my mother never left camp. Yeah, Mort, he ran all over the place trying to avoid the draft. Finally he ended up in Sydney, Nebraska, ammunitions depot, and he was safe there.

FK: So he worked in the army ammunition depot?

TM: Yeah. Shig is a 4-F because he got a bum knee. He was, he was 4-F from the very beginning, so he didn't worry about anything. After Chicago, he went to New York and he lived there for about two years, I guess.

FK: So did your, did your mother go from Manzanar to Minidoka also with everybody else, then?

TM: Yes.

FK: And did she live alone, then, in the concentration camp?

TM: Yeah, I guess so. Shig was in New York and I was in the army, Mort was in Nebraska, so I guess she must've been alone.

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