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RP: Were... did... you were aware of other restrictions that were placed on Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor? Traveling limitations?

HN: It was, yeah, you couldn't go anywhere. Restrictions were there.

RP: And curfew.

HN: Curfew was there. Restrictions were there, right. We had to stay home.

RP: So it really put a real damper on, you know, your life in terms of being able to go anywhere, social...

HN: Yes.

RP: Functions and things like that. Many internees remember, you know, one of the things that went along with post Pearl Harbor was destroying any, quote, "evidence" of implications to Japanese culture or Japan.

HN: My dad didn't do any of that. Not that I could remember anyway. You know, my dad really integrated with the community very well. 'Cause he didn't come here as a farmer, he came here as a worker in a paint factory. So, you know, he intermingled with the people very well, and learned the language very well, English language. And so...

RP: Do you think he may have wanted to become a citizen at that point and by law...

HN: He probably would have wanted to if he could have. And it wasn't allowed to until, what, 1952 was it? Something like that.

RP: Right.

HN: Yeah.

RP: So was it a, a real economic shock, disaster for him to have to sell all his --

HN: Oh, yes.

RP: Machinery and everything else? Do you remember some of the other property that you had? Did you have to...

HN: Well, the biggest thing is the car. He had a car he had to sell. I don't know what he got for it but probably nothing almost.

RP: Did you store furniture or other personal possessions?

HN: No, nothing. Sold everything. He had a couple of, he didn't have horses, I'm sorry, he had mules.

RP: Sold the mules?

HN: To run... yeah, he had to sell. He had two mules. And chickens, rabbits, all the farm equipment. And the crops that were in the ground, had to leave 'em. But actually we sold 'em to some Mexican fellow that... most of it he took over and ran it. Probably harvested the crop. I don't know whether he continued farming or not but...

RP: But that crop was probably taken...

HN: Yeah.

RP: ...taken care of.

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