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Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Eddie Owada Interview
Narrator: Eddie Owada
Interviewer: Alisa Lynch
Location: Denver, Colorado
Date: July 5, 2008
Densho ID: denshovh-oeddie-01-0023

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AL: What did you think of the redress movement? Were you involved in that? Did you have an opinion?

EO: I wasn't involved in it, but I got my redress.

AL: What did you feel about that? How did you feel about it?

EO: Well, I was grateful for the $20,000. It was very helpful. The ones that were most grateful for that I think was the Issei, the older people that were still living. 'Cause they were too old to work since they left camp. Financially they were in very dire straits. So it could have been and I think it probably was, and I'm sure it was, kind of a godsend to them. It was very grateful. And I was grateful for twenty, who won't be?

AL: What did you think of the apology?

EO: I got one... it said in one of the little news, not the news item, but a paper that was in one of the displays. They got the apology from, I think it's Clinton. I got mine from George Bush, you know. And I got mine in probably 1990? 1988 or 19... '88 was Reagan that signed the...

AL: Right.

EO: And so I got mine probably before, or about the time I retired.

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