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JA: What do you know about the so-called "riot"?

BS: The riot I don't really remember too much of. I remember seeing -- hearing the commotion, but my few friends that I hung around with, we heard of the riot but we decided, well, we won't go down there and bother it and fool around... what for? It was lucky because if we were down there, we would have been shot at. In fact, I was talking to a friend right now -- a couple of months ago, who said that he had gone down there and he was in the front row in front of the soldiers, but he was smart enough to move away and so he wasn't shot at and killed. He had moved out of the area and he was safe. And because of that, many people who I guess are considered really pro-, pro-U.S. were escorted out of the camp for their protection. And there was a friend of ours who was a friend of my sister, he was the editor, he was a second-generation man who was educated in Japan, but he hated Japan, and so -- and he was the, he was the writer or the... I don't know if he was the editor of the Japanese section of the paper. So when the riot occurred, they removed the family out into safekeeping, and at that time the family couldn't take much with them. And so since my sister was a good friend, they contacted my sister and asked my brother -- I mean, asked my father to pack their things for them. I remember we went to their apartment and packed all their things that they had left and, to have it shipped to wherever they were.

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