All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.
I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.
Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.
I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.
That was it - I lost my job... I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work... I'm an American, and I have nothin' to do with Japan, and so it's sort of an insult to me.
I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
