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Show Kenneth N odzu May 23,2001 LUK: You were saying earlier when you had to leave, you could only take-your family could only take what they could carry on one truck. So you probably had to leave a lot of stuff behind? KEN: Yeah, well, we didn't own very much. We didn't even own a refrigerator, although we had electricity where we lived. And we had running water and toilet facilities. So we lived pretty well in company housing. But when the war started, and Dad made arrangements for a friend, another coal miner, to-and he rented a truck, it was a ton and half truck-and we'd loaded everything we could on it. And we came up to American Fork, and we had to leave half the furniture in Spring Canyon because we couldn't take it all. Oh, I think that was the way with most of the families, Japanese families. They had to leave most of what they couldn't take with them. LUK: Did your father express any sadness that the way, you know, laying off Japanese workers ... ? KEN: No, not that I could recall. Because he says, "We were born here in America, and we have to abide by the government edict, and have to make the best of it." So I don't recall any bitterness from him. L UK: How about yourself, in looking back. Any bitterness about ... ? KEN: Well, when we first went to American Fork-we went to school in American Fork-we were kind of jeered sometimes, and called a Jap, and things like that from two or three bullies I guess you'd call them. But, other than that, I think we were really accepted. So I felt a little bitterness in our economic conditions because I figured if we 18 |
