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DG: How about today, looking back on that time, and I guess now we're building this memorial, how do you feel about the memorial that's being worked on and built?

KN: Well, I think it's a wonderful thing. Like, you know, internment, some people say, "Drop it, don't bring it up, forget about it, it's done." But if we don't keep talking about it, it could happen to some other people. So even at school, when they do this program of "Leaving Our Island" that's what they say: you've got to talk about it or it could happen again.

So I think this memorial is a wonderful thing to, for the future, present and the future, for everybody to learn. Because how many years ago, we went to Bremerton School, when we took our photo exhibit, and we answered a lot of questions for the students. And then after it was all over, teachers were gathered in this one room and said, "We didn't know anything about it, we have learned with the students." Well, they're younger teachers, you know, so naturally they never had anything in the books or anything. It was just sort of swept under the rug.

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