“You had a week to get ready to go to camp. You could only take what you could wear and what you could carry with two hands. Everything else gets left behind. The United States government is telling them, ‘You have to denounce Japan and pledge allegiance to the United States. On top of that, we want you to fight for us and go to war.’ If I was my dad, I would’ve done the same thing.”
Read More“That’s something that happened to me, and so what? It’s like anything else that’s upsetting, there’s no point keeping it in your head and getting upset about it. So shrug and forget about it.”
Read More“The coyotes would come down from the mountains. At night you could hear them thundering and howling and so that was a very frightening time because the camp was emptying and that was happening.”
Read More“Misery and stuff like that, I never knew about it. The only way I knew was because I was told by my older brothers and sisters. That it wasn't all peaches and cream.”
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