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EK: So in addition to working with the community leaders and having these outreach efforts, what other means did you use? Press releases, reaching out to the media?

JC: We did a lot of media, but media was so different then. So we worked on Japanese American vernaculars, like anything that they read in their community. So a lot of messaging in the community, a lot of messaging at churches, lot of messaging in communities, programs that they were interested in, so it was a lot of where they go. It didn't make sense to have large announcements, let's say, in the New York Times or the Washington Post, although we did, but we really focused on community. Community was major in the Japanese American community back then. I mean, hopefully it still exists today, but it was an organization of people who really knew who their neighbors were, were in tune with what was going on, and understood what we were trying to achieve. A lot of radio announcements, again, with regards to targeting whoever the radio announcer or star was at that time, or whatever program that people listen to. Lot of press releases, but again, back in the community. So we used media and print, probably print more than anything. We would have loved to have had Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, probably would have posted a lot of pictures with permission. All those tools that avail today would have been just fantastic. I mean, the internet would have been unbelievable had those war records been online. And NARA, I mean, NARA was a big... although we didn't use them to promote what we were doing, the information at the National Archives was just stunning. And even to read local print and paper, with fewer "Japanese American," just reading the word "Jap," and reading articles about needing to fear your neighbors, and some of the characters were just, it was stunning. So we knew, going in, what we needed to overcome, and so we were very sensitive to that. Like if we had an acronym, we need to really look at that acronym. Because the records that we created, I mean, if you were eligible, you'd have your own file, you'd have all your records and all the research that we had completed. And we had a very in-depth complaint form that we used, and we were very sensitive about our notes and what we documented. Because you, now, you can receive your documents, so we were sensitive to that. But we used every tool that was available to us. I mean, no rock was left unturned.

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