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JN: Today, when you think about it, do you have any thoughts about, about why you don't think it made any difference, or if you, you just kind of, just so you could survive and deal with it, or why you think you didn't make it an issue or you just kind of... do you think about why that might've been or have any thoughts about just what happened? [YO shakes head] What do you think about the memorial that we're making?

YO: I think it's nice.

JN: Because?

YO: I don't know.

JN: What would you like it to say? What would you like the memorial to be about?

YO: You mean that...

JN: The Bainbridge memorial at the site. Have you seen that site?

YO: I've been, I've been there.

JN: What do you, why do you think that's important? Or do you think that's important?

YO: Well, I can't say either way.

JN: Do you have any wishes as to what, what you'd like to have in there?

YO: No.

JN: There's gonna be, it's a national park now, and so there's gonna be people coming from all over the country and we're gonna, it's gonna be treated like, as, like a national park with visitors that come that might not even have known that this happened. Is that, what do you think they should know about, about what happened to you? Do you think that it's important that they know about this?

YO: To me, no.

JN: It doesn't matter.

YO: It doesn't, to me it doesn't matter that much.

JN: When we're talking, do you have anything else that might have, might, you might've remembered as you were talking about any of, anything about those years?

YO: I don't think so.

JN: When did you move? You've lived here and Sets was from here, right? He also was from the island?

YO: Uh-huh.

JN: Okay, and you've lived here pretty much all your adult life.

YO: I was born here.

JN: You were born here and stayed here throughout your life pretty much.

YO: Uh-huh.

JN: So your, your children were born here, were raised here?

YO: Yes.

JN: How many children do you have?

YO: Just one.

JN: Just, okay. Do you have any more...

Off camera: No. I think that's all. I think you've covered it well.

JN: Okay. Well, thank you. This is...

YO: You're welcome.

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