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gky: Now that you have the, now that you have fifty years of hindsight that you can look back on of experience, do you think that what you did, what your comrades did led to, helped the redress movement; Japanese Americans getting some kind of compensation and apology for what happened during the war?

TT: Oh, yes, unquestionably. I often try to envision what would have happened if the 100th and the 442 had never have went out there and compiled this kind of record that they did, especially close to eight hundred guys never coming back with us. And I feel it was because of them. Their supreme sacrifice is why I can enjoy the kind of opportunity and good life that I have enjoyed since then. I think it's kind of a given that aside from the exemplary conduct of the Japanese community as a whole. During wartime they bought war bonds, they donated blood, and they were good citizens. And there's not one act of disloyalty, or treachery, or anything like that, you know, and their conduct was exemplary. So the -- well, you know, you just can't deny; we mentioned this story, who you going to shoot, which is a question, it questions your loyalty. But, after the 100th and 442 came home, nobody asked who you going to shoot anymore, that kind of question. They put that kind of question to rest for good. And that, of course, adds into things like the drive for redress. And even, like say the monument that's being, that was just dedicated in Washington, D.C. Part of it is to recognize the contribution of the Nisei soldier during World War II as well as to commemorate this social injustice of the relocation and concentration camp experience. To remind history that that is not to happen again.

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