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Q: After all you've been through, the imprisonment, your feelings about the evacuation and loss surrounding it, why is your belief in the United States still strong?

MY: Well, because I think that there is no other country that would recognize errors in the past, would try to make efforts to redress those errors. Secondly, I believe that the judicial system that we have in this country, faulty though it may be, gives the best hope of rectifying that which was done. And finally, this is my country. I come from the Hood River Valley and it's a beautiful place, I was nurtured by the soil, I know what the summer sun is, the summer rains, and this is, this is my home. And certainly having that kind of a feeling, I want to make this, our country, the best in the world.

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