Densho Digital Archive
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection
Title: Frank Kitamoto Interview
Narrator: Frank Kitamoto
Interviewer: John DeChadenedes
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington
Date: April 14, 2007
Densho ID: denshovh-kfrank-02-0007

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JD: Do you remember how the family got ready to leave? How much time you had and what your mom had you do?

FK: Well, I know we had six days, but I don't remember much about it. I know I chose my rubber John Deere tractor to carry, 'cause I got that in my pictures. But it's... I don't, I don't remember anything of that day, I don't remember any of it at all. But the interesting thing to me is some of the people that I talk to that were in their teens and in their twenties don't remember anything about that day either. And they don't remember any of the details. They don't remember how they got to the dock or how they were feeling when they went down to the dock. They just know they were... went down to the dock and went onto the ferry, that's all they remember.

JD: I wonder if it was too shocking and painful an experience to remember.

FK: I have to believe that's what it was. 'Cause you... it's, it's hard not to remember stuff like that when you're that old. And some of them were in their late teens and, and twenties.

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