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MU: Do your children, or the grandchildren ask you about your army experience at all?
GM: No, no. 'Cause my kids has, they haven't. Two girls, they're busy in their home (...) trying to make ends meet.
MU: In their lives?
GM: Yes.
MU: How 'bout assembly centers, and relocation center, they ask about that at all?
GM: No. They, they -- no, they don't -- no, they don't ask. I think at first, Robin, but my first-born did 'cause she was, she belonged to this Bay area JACL. But now, I don't think she has any Asian friends. She has some Chinese friends.
MU: Uh-huh. Well, right now the Japanese and Chinese are intermarrying and...
GM: Yeah.
MU: ...so I guess it's natural. Now, when you look back on your life, what kept you going through all the...?
GM: All the turmoil?
MU: Yeah.
GM: Gosh, I don't know. What kept me going? See what's there for me tomorrow. That's the only way I can explain it.
MU: Just live for to --
GM: Live for the future.
MU: Live for tomorrow.
GM: Yeah.
MU: Do you have any...
GM: Regrets?
MU: Yeah.
GM: I have all kinds of regrets. But, there isn't anything I can do, right? Just to forget about it.
MU: About it. Yeah. So you've got to accentuate the positive.
GM: Right.
MU: And that's what you're doing.
GM: Uh-huh. Try to make myself and my family happy. Not to dwell on bad thing that has happened.
MU: You tell your children that?
GM: Both of my kids know about me -- that I was a soldier overseas, in the Pacific. Fought with the Japanese.
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