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RP: The other question I have for you is you said that after these Isseis were arrested in February, that you were, you did some interpreting.

TM: Uh-huh.

RP: For the... it was a JACL type of activity. Did you have any involvement with them? Were you a member of the JACL?

TM: No. This one fellow I knew, he was active, so...

RP: He recruited you?

TM: Yeah.

RP: "I know that guy. He knows good Japanese, he can speak Japanese." Because you said you were, kinda stayed away from politics.

TM: Uh-huh, yeah.

RP: So you didn't care to get involved, and JACL was just that. Okay. And how many times have you been back to Manzanar?

TM: How many times? Oh, just about every year I go, huh.

RP: You go up to go fishing and stop in?

TM: Yeah, I go fishing and then we stop by. Yeah.

RP: And what do you... are there any emotions that come out, come back for you about your life, your time in Manzanar?

TM: No. No emotions. I just feel that, hey, this is really great, the museum and all that. Oh... I feel that I was here. I'm kind of proud of it, yeah.

RP: And your name's up on that curtain.

TM: Oh, yeah. [Laughs]

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