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Could you build support
for the Japanese American

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Jew and I mean well while I was in camp

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the first time I was in camp. My
brother he was involved in in

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various Japanese activities
and he thought I might be

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a good idea for me to get some
suggestions and opinions and

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and regarding to if I should
fight the case for and

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so I agreed because I wanted to know their
opinion if I should fight it or not. And

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so that night he had a gathering
about thirty young people there in

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a room and they were discussion it
to themselves go in little groups

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and I stood around and waited for someone
to speak but no one actually came out to

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speak to me. Finally one
did and he said Fred

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we're all in Kenya and

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they're undecided on if I should
fight. The case or not because our

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There is no way that they can help me. And
so therefore was up to me to decide on

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what to do and I assume that
one of the main reason was

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their families are in came
already you know and they don't

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want to. Make any more disturbance.

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They didn't do any disturbance but anything
to upset the parents right at the time

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because they were too upset already and
being just being an can't. So I think that

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was one reason why I decided
to not say anything to other

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Japanese Americans you or yours to do

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people see was in trouble. Was there I
was Japanese and groups like Jews you

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know very very quiet about

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my actions.

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Maybe my guardian just I wired in
me. So therefore I assume that

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that I got myself in this problem and

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therefore was my problem and not
theirs. That's that's the way

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you do in there so they try to avoid

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a question on that and they tried to
act like nothing ever happened. You

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know. So therefore I had to take the
load myself you know like the Japanese

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Americans and you could take

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a stronger stance that
they would say to us. Well

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if they were in prayer or do
I would think that I would

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be much happier that I had them
backing me up on this but.

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To do that to do this by myself I just
wonder if I was doing wrong or if I was

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doing wrong are not doing the
right thing or maybe putting them

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in shame by bringing
the issue up again and

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because the Japanese people they they
like to they're peaceful people and they

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did like to leave things alone if they
can and because they were you know

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trouble as it is because of this Pearl
Harbor attack. They sort of feel and the

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country blamed them so very
few they had this sort of

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a guilty complex even though
they had nothing to do with it.