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Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Henry Nishi Interview II
Narrator: Henry Nishi
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Santa Monica
Date: April 8, 2009
Densho ID: denshovh-nhenry_2-02-0017

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RP: Were you around for the "loyalty questionnaire"?

HN: The what?

RP: When the government issued the "loyalty questionnaire," were you still in camp?

HN: I don't remember.

RP: Where they asked you, you know, whether you would be willing to serve, not willing, but would you serve in the military and then what your loyalty was. Question 27 and 28?

HN: I don't remember that. I'm... no, I don't recollect that. I don't know whether... I might have, but I don't know.

RP: You don't remember answering questions, "yes-yes" or "no-no"?

HN: No.

RP: But you were around when people were sent to Tule Lake?

HN: Yeah.

RP: You mentioned Mr. Ishida.

HN: Yeah, yeah.

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