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FA: You didn't believe the Nisei should be drafted, but a number of boys did volunteer. Did you ever tell their mothers of those boys that they were doing something wrong?

GK: No, I, I didn't personally talk to anybody about those things, but I believed that, gee, they're in camp and getting drafted -- I mean, not drafted, some did volunteer, but I thought, well, everybody for themselves but I thought that was wrong for them to really... but lot of people kinda had been fearful because if you fight the draft, you could, but...

FA: The people who did, were drafted, did they or their mothers ever come to you and say your husband was doing a bad thing, or you're doing a bad thing?

GK: No, I don't think they have, because I just remember those few old ladies that were always donating and thinking this is right, well, they had children, and they thoroughly believed that drafting them from behind the fence was really wrong.

FA: You mentioned the, bringing the wood in to build the tables in your barracks, so you had the nice table...

GK: Well, I guess those people that brought it were people that were working, they had trucks and they had trucks and they had... you know, that's the only way you could get it, it's government stuff but they didn't get permission to bring it, but they had to deliver these different things. And they brought us some wood and they, somebody just put it together, and gee, they did a pretty good job for putting a table together.

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