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AM: Okay, now we're gonna move on to the events during World War II.

JS: Uh-huh.

AM: And before your family decided to move to Area 2, you had an experience with the FBI in high school?

JS: Yeah, well, FBI came to Santa Clara High School and called me into the principal's office and they asked me questions about my brother-in-law in Japan. He was in the Japanese army, and my brother was in the American army here at Fort Lewis, Washington. And they all asked questions about, everything about home and everything. And they went, they were tough. They were real tough. [Laughs]

AM: And I asked you, did you have to go into that room all by yourself, like you said?

JS: Yeah, well, there was a vice-principal sitting there, and the two FBI men.

AM: And, yeah, and they questioned you, but they questioned other members of the family?

JS: They questioned my sister at grammar school.

AM: Wow.

JS: And my brother and my father out in the farm, yeah. So, yeah.

AM: And they, telling the same story, I guess.

JS: Yeah, you know --

AM: You didn't get sent anywhere. [Laughs]

JS: Yeah.

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