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RM: Great, this is tape two, interviewing John Young. I wanted to ask you, February 1943, the government asked -- it wasn't really asking them -- but had them answer something called a "loyalty questionnaire" where they had to say whether they would forswear allegiance to the Japanese government, the Japanese emperor, or whether they would serve in the United States military. Do you remember your wife and her family having to answer that questionnaire?

JY: No, I don't.

RM: And you don't remember answering it yourself. I don't know why you would have.

JY: Why would they ask me?

RM: Right.

JY: I'm Chinese.

RM: Do you remember anyone answering that? Do you remember anything going on in camp like that?

JY: No, I don't. In fact, both my brother-in-law, all three, yeah, all three of 'em, Roy and Dinky and Hideo were in the U.S. Army. Fumi is the only one that didn't, in fact, he just died last month, he was about eight years younger than I was. No, they were all in the service.

RM: Do you know if they joined the service from...

JY: Yeah, they joined the service, yeah, just to play basketball, believe it or not, and to go to Japan.

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