“I think that what the Isseis experienced of losing their place in the family unit has been predominant. And if you're any human being, that's a difficult thing to accommodate.”

“Everybody grabbed their guns and we all went outside and everybody was saying, ‘The war’s over, the war’s over!’ That’s why they were firing their guns into the sky. I don’t think there was a dry-eye among us.”

"After they gave us the redress, it just really relieved all of us who had been in the camp. Because camp was sort of a feeling of shame, that you had to be in a place like that.”

“Luckily for us growing up in New York City, there was very little discrimination. And my dad became friends with the top godfather of the Italian mafia. I must’ve thought I was part Italian.”