Densho Digital Archive - Shigeo Kihara Interview (denshovh-kshigeo-01-0012)

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RP: ...continuing interview with Shig Kihara, and this is tape two. And Shig, we were just going over some of your recollections of the time between Pearl Harbor and your removal from Florin. You mentioned that you, that your dad left his car and some of his guns with a Caucasian neighbor. Was that the 1935 Buick?

SK: No, 1935, yeah, right. It was a 1935 Buick, right. Uh-huh.

RP: Uh-huh. And I know you were again still pretty young, do you recall a visit to the, to your parents' farm by the FBI at any point in time?

SK: Well, you know, I can't say for sure if people came and visited. But I... it seemed like in the back of my mind that something, some people did come. But I'm not sure. I can't say positively that they did.

RP: Do you have recollections of where did, where did you have to go to meet the train on the day that you left?

SK: You know, that part there, it seems like I'm, I don't know why, but I seem to remember that we just went to the Florin train station there and got on a train. And we were off. And, I remember one of the things that my mother told either, I think it was Shirley, in fact, I spoke to Shirley, and it was Shirley that had whooping cough. I mean, not whooping... yes, whooping cough. She had whooping cough and told her to not cough because if she did they were gonna take her off the train and put her, isolate her and she wouldn't be on the train with us. So she told Shirley, "Don't cough." Yeah. Before I think when I, we spoke about this, I think it was us kids. But it was Shirley. Yeah. But, like I said, I remember, I think it was Florin, the train station that we got on.

RP: Do you have any remembrance of that day that you left? I know it was a long time ago.

SK: No, you know, I don't remember anything about that. I mean, I remember we were on a train, that's it. I don't even know when we arrived at the camp or anything.