“They didn’t tell us about doing away with our citizenship or nothing. But they didn’t warn us. They had a big cafeteria or gym that we met in, the whole camp. That was all full. The people of draft age, some with their parents.”

One of the comments my mother made was that she never thought that the government would ever apologize. So the most meaningful thing for her wasn’t the money, it was the apology to say that it was wrong, to admit that. 

“When we had to relocate we had to go to Pinedale Assembly Center. One thing that kind of touched my heart is when we left Auburn, we boarded a train. And my teacher brought the class to send me off. So, that was really nice.”