Minoru Tsuchimochi oral history interview, part 2 of 5, June 27, 2005

0:00 - Aftermath of Pearl Harbor attack

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Keywords: "evacuation"; Assembly Centers; curfew; Executive Order 9066; suitcase; train

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3:02 - Discussing parents' reaction to forced removal

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Keywords: "evacuation"; citizenship; Issei

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4:23 - Discussing what family lost due to forced removal

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Keywords: business; church; home; Japan; photographs; Topaz; Tule Lake

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5:57 - Discussing Japanese Americans getting picked up by FBI

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Keywords: community; families; leaders; Nisei

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7:56 - Discussing Executive Order 9066 and curfew; and traveling to Pinedale temporary detention facility

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Keywords: Fresno; movies; street; train; Western

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9:57 - Living conditions at Pinedale, and Tule Lake Concentration Camp

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Keywords: barracks; bath; desert; family; shack; weather

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12:57 - Typical day at Pinedale; and discussing food

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Keywords: baseball; Japanese; rice; Tule Lake; weather

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16:09 - Experiences at Tule Lake

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Keywords: baseball; employment; mountain; moving; music; Nisei; Pinedale

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18:57 - Tule Lake II- entertainment and living conditions

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Keywords: bands; barracks; furniture; Nisei

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20:40 - Employment- working at Tule Lake and in Gary, Indiana

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Keywords: discrimination; sugar beet; Tacoma; teacher

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22:37 - Meeting first wife; and getting divorced

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Keywords: Fort Snelling; Japan; Minneapolis; service; sister; Tule Lake

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23:59 - Life in Gary, Indiana; and working in Montana

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Keywords: baseball; company; sugar beet; tractor; truck; work

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