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AT: And I know we're like at about an hour, and I don't want to, I want to respect your time, everyone's time. But I also don't want to skip over anything that's super important. And I know that there's a lot more that you have done as well as with the pilgrimage, and with Tule Lake and other things. And so, if there's anything specific that you want to talk about go right ahead.

SS: Oh, well, I guess the two other important things for JACL perspective is getting involved with From Hiroshima to Hope. Because one of the guys I met in redress, and within JACL was Ken Nakano, who was another Kibei, like my mom, who as a young person had been sent back to Japan. But he got stuck there during the war and came back after the war. But he was in Hiroshima so he was hibakusha, he was affected by the bombing. So he was actively involved in trying to get, like the medical teams from Japan to come to the Seattle area, because there were, at that time, there were a number of hibakusha living in the greater Seattle area. And so he was also instrumental and getting us involved in commemorating Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And so I got involved with that. Actually, when I was working with JACL in the mid-'80s, we did our first Hiroshima/Nagasaki memorial program with Mike Lowry as our keynote speaker. We did it at Blaine Methodist Church as a JACL sponsored event and with WPSR, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. And, to our surprise, we got like four hundred JAs to come out to that program. So I've been involved with it in one way or another ever since. My taiko group plays at From Hiroshima to Hope every year. So that's how we got involved with kind of nuclear weapons and disarmament issues.

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