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KB: So you have grandchildren?

SO: Oh, yes, I have grandchildren. I have seven grandchildren, two grandsons and five grand... girls.

KB: And do they know of what you lived through?

SO: They do now.

KB: How old is the oldest?

SO: Oldest is fifty...

KB: Your grandchildren. Who's your oldest grandchild?

SO: Oh, oldest grandchild? She's twenty-four and married. She went to UCLA and graduated in four years and got married the year she graduated, she got married in August.

KB: And are they getting to hear the interview that your daughters are doing with you?

SO: They probably will get a copy of it.

KB: Have you ever spoken to your grandchildren about your experience?

SO: Oh, yes. I had two grandchildren that interviewed me and wrote about this internment.

KB: Were they surprised that you had experienced this? Did they know anything about it before?

SO: No. They were both in California in the same family.

KB: And they were, how did they react when you shared this story?

SO: Oh, they were... they got good grades, so I guess they enjoyed it.

KB: And what's important to you in life?

SO: To see the grandchildren grow up and become somebody.

KB: And you mentioned earlier that you wanted, you wished that redress had been earlier.

SO: Yes.

KB: Why do you wish that?

SO: For the parents and older people that passed away already, 'cause it was quite a few years. Let's see, 1980, so it's thirty years or forty years, almost.

KB: Your parents weren't alive at that time of redress?

SO: No.

KB: Did your parents become citizens?

SO: No, they did not. May's mother became a... she's Chinese and she became a citizen.

KB: Did your parents choose not to or did something... it just went by.

SO: Yeah, I don't think they realized that they could.

KB: So is there anything else that you would like to share with us or say or leave us with a message or anything?

SO: I just hope it comes out okay. [Laughs]

KB: It's going to come out great.

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