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JD: Do you see ways that the memorial can give a message like that to visitors... not only about the soul of the Japanese American community but about just what it means to be a human being?
FK: Yeah. I think we can use examples. I think, I think we have the soul of the people who went to concentration camp peacefully without protesting. We have the souls of the over sixty men and women from our three hundred, or two hundred seventy-six of us, who served in the U.S. Army during that time. We have the souls of the people that refused to be drafted because of what was happening to their people. They said, "Let my, let the Japanese Americans get out of the concentration camp and we'll serve." I mean, that's soul. We have the souls of the people who supported us, the Woodwards, the Meyers, the Andersons, the Terabochias, the Champnesses. We have their souls, who in spite of all the fears they could have gone through, who still supported us. And I think if, if people can see that there are alternatives to fear, alternatives to violence, and, and that you can take that risk to do those things, I think there's a possibility that they could speak that way, this memorial could speak that way.
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