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BH: When you were fairly young in elementary school, how did things change at school after Pearl Harbor was bombed?

SF: Well, you mean after Pearl Harbor?

BH: After Pearl Harbor, before camp. Did the teachers or the other schoolchildren treat you and your brothers and sisters differently?

SF: I don't remember any of that part of it. They must have been okay, because otherwise it doesn't ring a bell.

BH: And a couple months after Pearl Harbor there was Executive Order 9066. How did that change things? How did you prepare?

SF: Well, you mean to go to camp? Well, we only could take what we can carry, and my roller skates were very important. [Laughs] So I tried to pack it in my suitcase and Mom kept on taking it out.

BH: What did she want you to put in your suitcase instead of the roller skates?

SF: Clothing. [Laughs] Things that are more necessary. But, you know, you're kind of in a daze, going to the train station, and I'm just following the family. Don't know what to take.

BH: Was the Filipino family still, were the Filipino workers still working your farm and your land?

SF: Yeah, they were still there. They said, "Don't worry," some of the things that were left in the house, they'll watch over. But I don't know what happened to it.

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