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FC: Were you home when they came to get, to arrest your husband?

GK: Yes, I was.

FC: What happened?

GK: Well, we were expecting it because he's been making speeches for the, so the Isseis would understand so we could raise our money to take it to court. And so when they picked him up, well, I think he was washing dishes at the time so they went to get him, and then, but he was already packed. I had, he knew what clothes he has to have, because we knew it was coming. And they took him away about, oh, ten days after, I guess, my son was born. So, and they came in and just went through everything. Our unit was small, but when they mix up everything it could be nerve-wracking and I was right there. And after they left, I guess because it was soon after I had my son that I just went blind, I just couldn't see a thing. 'Course, I was worried 'cause I didn't know how long I'd be blind, but fortunately I was okay the next day. But that was really an experience. And of course people want to know how I'm taking it, you know, so they're just going back and forth, because I lived on the end of the unit, kind of. But I didn't show any emotion because I believed what my husband and those boys were doing because I just, my brother was in the army, he was drafted and he went, and he said there's no chance because in the army, when the top people came to visit their place there, they were put away so that they couldn't see the -- I think the president or somebody came to their place. I guess it was in Arkansas or somewhere, but anyway, they didn't have the run of the place, they were just put away so that, because they're Isseis and they got menial jobs. My brother says he had to always take care of the garbage, so he takes off his jacket, and he's doing it and officer comes and say for him to put his jacket back on, and he says, "If you want to stick your hand in this dirty garbage pail," he said, "you do it," so he'd get demoted. [Laughs] But he was small, but he was spunky, he didn't take too much. He worked hard and everything, but he said they used to kind of treat him like that, so he didn't want take too much of that.

FC: So the day Guntaro was arrested, people came by to...

GK: Well, they just go back and forth unnecessarily because they want to know what I'm doing, you know. Well, I was in my unit and then later on, 'cause my son was small, my mother, I took my son and daughter and, my mother was in the end unit, the end large one, not the last unit, so I went there and stayed with her, because she was watching my son lot of times and I used to work at the post office and stuff like that. So she used to take care of, but...

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