0:00 - Favorite memories of parents and remembering high school, subjects, and teachers

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Keywords: biology; education; English; family; father; friendship; grades; math; mother; parents; poetry; Shakespeare; teacher; values

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4:53 - Reading and enjoying adventure stories as a young adult

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Keywords: "Mutiny on the Bounty"; "New Worlds to Conquer"; adventure stories; author; education; entertainment; islands; National Geographic; prose; reading; Richard Halliburton; travel

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8:22 - Transitioning to vocational school after high school-- working in pineapple fields

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Keywords: "CCC"; education; employment; farming; father; fields; government work; Great Depression; higher education; labor; pineapple fields; temporary labor; uneducated employees; vocational school

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11:45 - Going to vocational school and subsequent employment

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Keywords: boarding house; construction electrical work; contractor work; Downtown Honolulu; education; electrician; employment; government jobs; Honolulu Community College; Honolulu Vocational School; living conditions; refrigeration mechanic; vocational school

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16:06 - Living on 20 cents an hour wage and continued description of siblings

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Keywords: brothers; cheap food; English name; frugal living; Keiko; nickname; sister

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18:20 - Free time after work, describing friends and more employment details

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Keywords: "coming of age"; 1940; card games; contractor work; employment; Filipinos; friendship; games; house wiring; Japanese; knob and tube wiring; park; plantation workers; Portuguese; vocational school

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21:51 - Hearing about Europe and Japan in 1940

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Keywords: China; European Theater; family; father; Japan; Manchuria; parents; siblings; World War Two

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24:31 - Remembering Pearl Harbor and initial reactions / feelings

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Keywords: "disarray"; "tent city"; apartment; arms; battleships; burning; fighter; Japanese; Pearl Harbor; Schofield; smoke; Sunday; US Army; USS Arizona; war; weapons

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27:30 - Preparing for the unknown after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

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Keywords: discrimination; discrimination in the military; fighter airplane; morale; Nisei; Nisei soldiers; Pearl Harbor; riots

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