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gky: You said your relatives were in Hiroshima?

DO: Yes. My parents came from Hiroshima.

gky: What happened when the bomb was dropped?

DO: Well, when the bomb was dropped, I wasn't home, so I don't know how they felt, but I'm sure they felt real bad because I lost my uncle, my auntie. They were in Hiroshima and due to the atomic bomb, they're gone.

gky: But you didn't have any close relatives there?

DO: I had uncles and cousins. One cousin who was in Japanese service, one died in Philippine, I find out later, and one was a prisoner of Russian army and he came home. When he came home, there's no house, no nothing.

gky: After the war, one thing that you did was you dug up the remains of U.S. soldiers, identified them.

DO: Yeah, because, after surrender, I thought I can go home but big job started again, and I had to go and look for missing American soldiers and those who were buried someplace. And it wasn't a very pleasant duty, to tell you the truth.

gky: Most of them must have decomposed by the time you...

DO: Yes. In fact, when we dug up all here and there, and we had the Japanese soldiers to help me to locate where they were buried.

gky: When you say locate them, how did you know otherwise?

DO: Well, those people, the one that located, I mean that's buried, was American soldiers.

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