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HM: Have you heard of our memorial project and what we're doing here?

JK: What kind of memorial?

HM: The Nidoto Nai Yoni, the project we're having in Eagledale where we're having a memorial park.

JK: I probably heard of it, but I don't exactly know what that was.

HM: This is a project to keep people, let people know what happened to the Japanese during the evacuation and about the Japanese history on the island. And so you're a part of it right now, because we'll have your interview in the archives. If you were to -- or anyone, your grandchildren or people from all over the United States came to this memorial, what would you like them to learn?

JK: Well, I don't know. I never thought of that.

HM: What do you think would be important to put into this project, to include in it?

JK: Well, I think when they have all the people get together, JACL probably have a lot of input on that. So I think everybody will be pleased that JACL's getting everybody together.

HM: Okay. Do you have any more thoughts about this whole process and the whole way that the United States government mandated that the Japanese go?

JK: No, I don't have any problem with that. Anywhere we go, we're treated like a human being, not like derrogarated language or anything like that. When we moved to Ontario area, there's one town that said that, "You're not allowed," or something like that, like a restaurant that they're not going to serve us or anything, but town of Ontario and Payette, they were very nice to us those days right after the war when the people came to Ontario, we worked for, do some farmwork. And then a lot of people established themselves in the Ontario area, but they're doing real well.

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