Feeling at peace with himself

Growing up in segregated schools Feeling prejudice while looking for jobs Joining the army Generosity of the Italians Animosity between the Hawaiians and the mainlanders Being scared during combat Never feared that he wouldn’t come back home On saving the Lost Battalion Coming home to his mother after the war Getting a PhD under the G.I. Bill Invited to teach at Harvard by his boss Feeling at peace with himself

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I feel so fulfilled with what I’ve been able to do and experience in life that I’m totally at peace with myself, for what I’ve done. And if you’d ask me, or anyone, would you do anything different in your life? Absolutely not. Including war experiences, including everything else, if I had a chance to live it over again I’d do the same thing.

Date: January 3, 2015
Location: California, US
Interviewer: Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

442nd military veteran World War II