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FK: We're gonna be doing this memorial at Eagledale. And what are your feelings about that memorial? What do you think about that?

TM: I think it's kind of too elaborate. That girl that's... at that last meeting that they had all that stuff on the wall there, it's supposed to be continuous length of murals, sounds like that for how many, or all the way from the point to Taylor Avenue?

FK: Yeah, it's about, yeah, 276 feet long.

TM: Is there gonna be any, any shelter of any kind there for getting out of the rain or something?

FK: [Laughs] Well, we want to do an interpretive center there. How do you feel about an interpretive center? It'd be a building that they could put exhibits and things in.

TM: I think, I think there's too much stuff there... to vandalism, I think. How you keep the vandalism under control.

FK: So you think there might be some vandalizing, vandalism happening at that site?

TM: Yeah.

FK: If you were gonna give a message at that memorial or at that site, what message do you think we should be giving to ourselves or to other people?

TM: Oh... [pauses] it's gonna take some maintenance, you know. Somebody's gonna, responsible guy is gonna have to watch it.

FK: You know, most of us who have gone through this experience are gonna be passing away pretty soon, and pretty soon there won't be anybody left who's gone through this experience. Is there anything you think that our children should, or future generations should know, or any type of things we should leave them as far as legacies or anything like that?

TM: We should leave something that's solid enough not to get vandalized, I guess, torn to pieces. I don't know about...

FK: Well, do you think it'll upset some people so they'll vandalize it, or what do you think?

TM: Do I think that somebody's gonna vandalize it because they don't like us, you mean?

FK: Yeah, or because they don't like the memorial.

TM: No, I don't think, I don't think in that sense it would. Just young kids, just knocking a panel down here and a panel down there, just for the fun of it.

FK: Is there anything you'd like to say to future generations about your own experience or about your own life or anything that you think might be helpful to them?

TM: No. [Laughs] A wasted life.

FK: What do you -- you know, this is out of my own curiosity -- what do you envision happening to your property when you pass on?

TM: I don't know. Shig, Shig going to get it, if he outlives me. [Laughs]

FK: So, it'll be up to Shig to decide?

TM: [Laughs] Yeah.

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