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FC: Now that you know what your dad did, what it meant, what the effect was on the community, you still like being your dad's daughter?

FY: I've never felt prouder of being his daughter. And it was, all this growing-up period, we used to always talk about the evacuation, his experiences while he was in Leavenworth. Frank Emi was an integral part of our conversation in our lives for many years. And it's something that, while I learned later that it was an unusual situation, I grew up being very proud of what he did. And both of my parents -- my mother talked about it as though it was the greatest thing that had ever happened to our family, and my dad repeated it. And so both my brother and I grew up with a very profound sense that what he had done -- right or wrong, whether he won or lost, or the period of the sixteen months that he spent in prison -- all those things faded when you really considered the importance -- as we felt -- of what he had done. And to this day, we're very proud of what he has done. I try to tell my nieces and my nephew, whenever they'll take time to listen, of what their grandfather, our father had done -- has done. And I'm very proud of him.

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