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RP: So you drove to Oklahoma. Can you remember anything at all about the trip?

YW: I remember we stayed one night, at least one night someplace at the hotel because my sister, my older sister broke a glass while she was brushing her teeth and mother got so worried. She said, "Oh, we'd better leave some money here to pay for the glass." So she left money for that broken glass.

RP: One thing, do you recall, was it March that you left?

YW: Uh-huh. It was around March. Because my mother was seven months pregnant and my brother was born in May 14th.

RP: And that kind of fits in with the, the window that, that the military allowed for Japanese families to voluntary, voluntarily evacuate. One other question I wanted to, I wanted you to respond to about that, the situation with the FBI. Did they, did they go through the house at all, searching for any items or going through, through rooms and things, looking for anything?

YW: I don't remember that. I don't remember that at all. I just remember that we couldn't take my brother's hunting rifle and, and the camera. But that was all that I could remember. I can't even remember what condition we left the house. We must have left it just like we were living because they couldn't do anything with it. They didn't even try to sell anything.

RP: 'Cause of the time?

YW: Yeah.

RP: Do you recall any of your feelings about that experience, seeing the men? Was there a feeling of fear or confusion or what's gonna happen next or...

YW: Oh, I just got scared because my sisters were saying, "The FBI man's here and they're gonna take Daddy away." But, I guess I was young, too young.

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