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HM: Do you remember anything about what you were doing or how you heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor and how did it affect your family?

IW: I guess we were in Sunday school at the old Baptist church and we could hardly believe it. We went home and put the radio on and it was, we were having a war. And for a while, we didn't know what to do but we were saying we're Americans so we don't have to worry, but it wasn't that way, and soon after, my father was taken because he was, he always did so much for the community. We went to see him in Seattle and he was like a prisoner, because the gates, immigration office or whatever you call it, and they had a gate like a jail and he can only speak in English. And they monitored us or they were right there, and it was difficult. So anyway we felt like he was in prison, you know. So when 9066 or whatever that was, we had to evacuate in six days, not even a week. But my mother and the four girls, and she had to make decisions, rightfully or wrongly.

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