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GS: What do you think about the memorial down in Eagle Harbor?

TS: When you first talked about it, I heard from Frank, and I thought well, I'm sure it's a very good thing to do, to let everybody know what really happened here. That what they are doing down there, would be a very, testimony that we did really happen which is good for the people that would like to see it. I'm not really, everybody has a different opinion, I suppose. That was my feeling, that if you are going to have it, let's have it so that everybody could see what happened.

GS: Do you have any other thoughts about anything else that happened to you during that time in your life on Bainbridge?

TS: Well, nothing exceptional. We have lived a very good life, I might say, other than that period of we spent down there and... I feel we are fortunate to live here on Bainbridge Island.

GS: Thank you. Oh, yes, you have three boys. How many grandchildren do you have?

TS: I have five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

GS: And they live around here?

TS: Yeah, the oldest one lives in Federal Way, and then the second one, Gary lives in Poulsbo, and my youngest has a house, living in Portland, Oregon, area.

GS: So your three sons live fairly close to you.

TS: Yeah, more or less.

GS: And your grandchildren live close by also?

TS: Yeah, that's right.

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GS: The question, Dad, was why were you happy that you lived on Bainbridge rather than somewhere else?

TS: You mean before the war or after the war?

GS: Both, before and after.

TS: Well, the reason I came to Bainbridge in the first place was I wanted a job. I had to something. I didn't have a job since I came back from seeing my parents in Japan.

GS: Then after the war?

TS: After the war, well, see the, my wife's family had a farm here on Bainbridge Island and especially my father-in-law wanted to come back, so my wife said, "I'm going to go with him and take care of him," until he passed on.

GS: So when you returned to Bainbridge Island, you found that there was an opportunity here to live a better life?

TS: Well, I think so, especially for the boys. You know, it had a pretty good school here. We had a good relation with the neighbors and it was a very helpful neighbors around in that area. I think more or less, it's a two-way street, you might say. The Koba family had a good relationship with the neighbors where they used to live.

GS: All right.

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