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RP: Okay, a couple of final questions. Tak, you lived in Block 11.

TM: Uh-huh.

RP: You were close to the judodojo.

TM: That was 10, huh?

RP: Ten was right next to it but you're not too far away.

TM: Uh-huh.

RP: Were you, did you ever get involved in judo?

TM: No.

RP: Or kendo?

TM: No.

RP: No? The other, the other location was right next to Block 11 where the Victory Garden area... the little farming area where people had their plots of vegetables and did you, did your family cultivate any vegetables? Grow anything there?

TM: No.

RP: With the landscape around your barrack, did you, you remember...

TM: Around Block 11?

RP: Yeah.Was there any gardens or lawns or...

TM: Uh-uh.

RP: No? How did the, how did the landscape, the mountains and the, the area where the camp was, affect you? Did you... were you impacted by the surrounding area of the camp?

TM: You mean now or...

RP: Then or now.

TM: Oh. Not too much.

RP: Well, Tak, it's, it's been an honor to finally get a chance to interview you after meeting with you three or four times and sharing these stories. It's good to get these on tape and we'll have your story preserved for, forever. And so from Kirk and myself and the Park Service, thank you for spending some time this morning going over your, your life with us.

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