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Q: Can you give your opinion of, just your general opinion of what the decision, the evacuation decision, the executive order, can you summarize just how you felt, feel about it in terms of now, looking back?

FK: Well, looking back, I felt that it was wrong because any person that do wrong, a criminal, would get a fair trial. Would get a hearing, and to see and to prove that either they're wrong or they're guilty or so forth. And to be pushed into this evacuation and also threatened with punishment because you look like the enemy, they don't say you're an American citizen, because they've taken the American citizen away from you, which is wrong. And I felt I was an American citizen, and I had just as much right as anyone else. And as far as defending the country, I tried my best to do that, or even if I had to go into the military to fight. And being denied everything, and being accused as the enemy, which I have no part of it, I don't even have any ties with Japan, nor have I ever been there. To be accused like this, well, I just thought it wasn't fair. It was wrong.

Q: Was there a conscious moment -- you started, you were originally arrested for more personal reasons. Was there a conscious moment where it became away from the personal issue, your girlfriend was no longer there. Do you remember at the moment -- you could have gone into the camp instead of going through this whole legal process. Do you remember making that decision? Being put up to having more problems, going through the whole legal process?

FK: I didn't, I didn't think that way. I just, at that time, when things are going so fast, you can't -- and I was so young.

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