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KP: So 1988 was also the year of the redress.

TT: Yeah.

KP: Retirement bonus?

TT: Not much of a bonus.

KP: What did you think about the redress?

TT: Well, don't forget, as far as getting it and appreciating it. But you know, like I think the twenty thousand, I don't think, it never could replace the freedom we lost. Like we said, I could tell the students that, when I go to talk to 'em, said, "You know, you lose your rights, your constitutional right, you don't realize it until you do," I said. You get stuck back there in the fence like that, losing your own constitutional right and all that. Because technically speaking, man without a country. And that apology, I think just as much about the apology as I do about the twenty thousand dollars. [Laughs]

KP: How did the apology make you feel?

TT: Well, I felt a little better. But it'll never take away the years I lost in camp. But a lot of people ask, well, they says, some people tell me, I meet on this, in this job or something, well, they said, "For your protection." I said, "Protect me from what?" I said, "I would have taken my chance outside." And besides, look at the labor shortage they had, the farm and all that. It didn't make sense. But that's part of war, I guess. But I think most of us survived.

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