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RP: What did, did the FBI come to visit your husband after the war broke out?

MS: Yeah. Let me see...

RP: They were rounding up all these other Issei fisherman and community leaders.

MS: Yeah, and of course, he was out at sea that night. When he came back on the morning, the 7th, he came back in and, let's see... that night, the 7th, and he said that was funny because everything was dark. They hardly got into the harbor because the, even the lights in the harbor, so they thought somethin' was, they didn't know. And then when they came home, then of course, my folks there, so I left my home. I was scared, so I was with my folks. He went to the house and he couldn't find me and he got desperate, he didn't know where I was, but I was with my, he knew, so he came back and then they realized, they didn't know 'cause they shut everything off. They couldn't contact anybody to find out. But then they were out at sea that night and they came in late that night on the 7th, and the, I was staying with my folks because I didn't want to stay home alone.

RP: So did, do you remember an FBI visit?

MS: Well, actually, I don't, I talked to some newspaper men and they, you know, so I never trusted newspaper people. I say don't believe half the stories in the newspaper because they talked to me, but nothing what I said came out like I said it. They twisted it the way they wanted to put it in the paper. That's, so I say don't ever trust what the newspaper...

RP: They came to visit you after the war broke out?

MS: Yeah, and I tried to tell 'em, but they never wrote it in the paper like I had said. They twisted it the way they wanted it to come out. That's why I tell everybody, don't ever trust newspaper people. You don't know what they're gonna write.

RP: What did you tell them?

MS: What?

RP: What did they want to know and what did you tell them?

MS: Well, they wanted to know what happened, about the war, what I thought about it or, I don't know. I don't remember, but anyway, it didn't come out like I thought I said.

RP: Did you tell them that you'd been illegally detained?

MS: Yeah. Yeah, that was, oh, I'm telling you... the FBI couldn't understand it. He was, first thing he says, "Get out of here. You don't belong here," he told me.

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