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JS: What do you remember about the evacuation -- well actually, first Pearl Harbor, you were a high school senior. Where were --

KS: I was senior, yeah.

JS: Where did you hear the news of Pearl Harbor?

KS: That happened on a Sunday, wasn't it? I was at home. I was, we were, we weren't quite listening to the radio, but we heard about it, then we ran home and start listening to the radio. But I think I was on the tractor. We were farming, so we're working on the tractor. Yeah, that was in June, wasn't it?

DG: December.

KS: Oh, December 7th, yeah. December 7th. So I don't know what we were doing then, December 7th. We didn't have any television then. There never was no television. Only thing was radio or the newspaper. So most of it it'd be tuned in on the radio, I think, we heard about it.

DG: Was, were there any Issei leaders in Clarksburg who were rounded up by the FBI?

KS: Oh yeah, there were a few, few... teacher, Japanese school teacher, there was some big farmers, landowner farmers. Boom, they got picked up. And some of those were, belonged to organizations, Japanese organizations, and affiliated in Sacramento, town of Sacramento, so they got pulled in.

DG: But not your father.

KS: No, my father wasn't pulled in, no. He was just a regular farmer.

DG: I have two more prewar questions. Were you, was your family involved with a church?

KS: Church? I don't remember. I think my folks used to go to church whenever they had a chance, but we had to go all the way to Sacramento.

DG: The Buddhist church?

KS: Buddhist church, yes.

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