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What about like seventy six hour social
studies. Do you remember those classes

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that one was

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a that teachers that I recall was
OK yeah about Again that was

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a holly teacher she was all right well
really discussion about you know about the

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internment at sallow know in camp or
even among the students are you know

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we none of us really say none of us

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most of my group the ones I my friends
you know we really didn't put that much

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thought about being bitter or doing
anything about it. We just accepted it

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and did what we were told in question. It
was until later until the next generation

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came along and we were in college and
found out. Hey you know maybe that wasn't

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right and and then even our
generation later. It wasn't until

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what the seventy late seventies and
eighties until someone some J.C.L.

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Chapter start getting involved
and questioning it created that.

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The study but you know for

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a long time I had questions
mixed feelings about the

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you know redress and
reparations whether that was

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a wise thing to do or not
and of course I accepted

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it gracefully. You know in
the reparations and then

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through my experiences later.
Later on to I was I joined

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a country club when I was
only the second one to join.

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Second Japanese American to join
so many of those people and

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members here who are not
sympathetic to what

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happened to us and the worst part about
it where some of those people were

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a Italians you know and because

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they were categorized the same core
categories we were there any of the you say

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he's carrying

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a season Germany's cities were enemy
aliens and they had to move out of Alameda

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just like the Japanese American
cities had to do and but

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there were

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a few of those there were good friends of
mine but we just differed in her opinion

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and yeah and there's some of that

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didn't think we deserved
the reparation. You

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know and most of our cases the people that
received it probably didn't need it the

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ones that did were all gone there and I
like my mother and father and neither I

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live long enough to get it and they're the
ones that really do serve it. You know.

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So right at the time I
can tell ya ya know.

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Yeah right or you're kind of going
and young and the worst part about

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camp for me in my education was I was

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a challenge. I was not
required to do homework

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as I recall I wasn't really challenge
enough I wasn't prepared for

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the outside when I got back
in college for four college.

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That's my experience most
of my contemporaries

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my closest friends all ended up
pretty well that were in the same

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group but then again I was one of the
younger ones I was sixteen when I even you

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know graduated from high school. Topaz
high two years after I graduated in junior

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high and all I remember was having

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a lot of fun. You know and when I went to
got out and went to school I was still

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having fun. Apparently I did. Well
I know to transfer to Berkeley.

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But I just didn't apply myself I know I was
capable but I just you know plan myself

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after I wasn't prepared I got

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a bad three years of non the study. You

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know all I got by because I picked picked
up what I learned in class and I wasn't

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because I was you know
really pushed you know and

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you don't. My dad would
help me in math. But

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I don't remember many kids my age sitting
at home with their parents doing

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homework going thing like that was nonexistent.
And most cases because of language

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. You know and mostly Ses
couldn't help with the U.S.

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History or government you know you know
like that. You know my mother could help me

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but she didn't for whatever reason. Bobby
because I didn't want to you know you

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know.