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RP: So how did you find out about the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
DT: Well, I think we were all at church and my mother's cousin came and made the announcement. But being kids, I don't think we were in church, we were probably in Sunday school. 'Cause he came to the worship service or someplace and told everybody. But Pearl Harbor meant nothing to us until I guess my mom or somebody explained it.
RP: Did you see any changes in your parents' behavior after Pearl Harbor? Any changes when you went to school the next day? And at that time you were going to the integrated school right?
DT: I'm sure there were a lot of talking behind our back but we didn't notice and my mom and dad they tried to shield us from a lot of things so I'm sure they whispered. But until they started packing I didn't think too much of it.
RP: Your father was involved heavily in the church. Were there other community groups or associations that he was a part of?
DT: Just church and the Japanese school, so he had his suitcase all packed because they said that certain people were going to be picked up and he thought he was going to be picked up. But a lot of our friends were picked up, but not my father.
RP: Was your farm ever visited by the FBI?
DT: No, not that I know of. But they said, oh, be looking out for a black car. [Laughs] They thought that they were going to pick my dad up. But luckily he didn't have to go but I don't know what my mother would have done 'cause she was really dependent on him.
RP: How about your older sister? Had she married by this time?
DT: Yeah, she was already married. I guess she was married about one or two years and she was living in Lodi and then when evacuation came she came back from Lodi to be sure that our family stayed together. A lot of people moved from the east side of the railroad to the... to east side from the west or back and forth because they wanted to stay with their relatives or family or something so they were moving back and forth.
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