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MN: Now when you returned to Manzanar, was your sister still in camp?

KM: Hmm?

MN: Was your sister still in camp when you returned to Manzanar?

KM: Yes. We all returned to camp Manzanar.

MN: But was your sister still there?

KM: I can't recall. I'm pretty sure they were.

MN: Now what did your sister do at Manzanar?

KM: My sister? She wasn't there too long. I think she left and went to the University of Nebraska, so she got into the University of Nebraska in the summer semester, so she must have left either August... so she was onlyh in camp maybe about two, three months.

MN: When you returned to Manzanar, had the riots happened already?

KM: I can't recall what the dates were, no.

MN: Now I know a lot of people were Buddhists, but do you recall the first Christmas in Manzanar?

KM: No.

MN: How about the oshogatsu?

KM: I can't remember anything different.

MN: Now once you returned to Manzanar, what did you do?

KM: What?

MN: Once you returned to Manzanar --

KM: I can't recall what I did. I probably went back to the same job.

MN: Now -- go ahead.

KM: Go ahead.

MN: Now '43, the U.S. government came out with the controversial "loyalty questionnaire." When this came out, did you discuss this with your friends?

KM: Yeah, I guess we did, and then it was just a matter of which way you wanted to vote on that or answer that question about "no-no" or "yes-yes" and "no-yes." And so I think my attitude was that I guess since I'm born here and even though you were in camp, we wouldn't be comfortable in Japan. So I just forwarded "yes-yes."

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