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JA: My mother understood exactly what I was trying to do, and this was to contest the wrong the government did to us.

FC: But she never said, "Don't do it"?

JA: No.

FC: Any other members of your family?

JA: Well, my father was picked up shortly after the war, maybe the day, and I never saw him until probably sometime in '44 when he was released from Lordsburg, New Mexico.

FC: Okay, let's get that clear. "My father was picked up on the night of December 7th."

JA: Or the following day.

FC: Okay.

JA: My father was picked up either the night of December 7th, or the following day, and I didn't see him until possibly into 1944.

FC: How old were you?

JA: Oh, I was twenty-one. Let's see... no, twenty-two.

FC: Say it again, please.

JA: I was twenty-two.

FC: So only you and your mother went to camp, of your family.

JA: No, my brother.

FC: Uh-huh. Older, younger?

JA: Younger brother. Five years, six years younger.

FC: So you all shared an apartment?

JA: Uh-huh.

Male voice: When did, when were you let go? When did they let you go? When did they finally just abandon you and say, "Go on home?"

JA: Okay, I was in prison.

Male voice: Right. What was your last day in prison like?

JA: And that was probably... gee, I can't be exact. I can tell you, but it must have been in '46, sometime, November '46.

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