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EK: And could you talk a little bit about kind of reflecting personally or professionally, kind of what your biggest challenges were?

PD: My biggest challenge, to me, was making sure everybody that wrote in that were a part of the program were getting the restitution back. I kind of got so into it and kind of loving the people that I wanted to make sure everybody that was due got what they deserved, or got what was coming to them. So the challenge, to me, was just making certain everybody was heard, everybody's information was in the system, and making sure everybody got paid if they were supposed to, because they were older, a lot of them were older.

EK: And what do you think were the Office's biggest successes, or your personal biggest success?

PD: I think making sure everybody got paid. I mean, because a lot of the constituents, they were older, so we wanted to make sure they were getting paid before they passed away, and just making sure everybody.

EK: And were you aware of, kind of, the internment and what happened during World War II prior to starting in the office?

PD: No, I was not, not at all.

EK: What, if any, impact did your time working at redress have on you personally or professionally?

PD: Well, I learned to be a fast data entry person. [Laughs] Because all the letters and things we were getting in, we had to make sure that it was in the system in a timely manner.

EK: And so was this going into a big database? I mean, when I was there, it was primarily JARVIS, but was there something that you were working on prior to that?

PD: No, JARVIS was considered, like, the big database at that time, so everything was going into that, pretty much.

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