For Peter Ota, being a young Japanese man in the early 1940’s was extremely difficult. His dad was sent to prison and the rest of his family (sister and mother) were sent to concentration camps for the Japanese people. Through Peter’s story and experience, he talks about moving from camp to camp and finding new jobs. At no point did he seem overly emotional, but he did seem to give off anger. But, to me this anger is extremely called for. He was forced out of his regular life because of a war, and then he was forced to register to fight for the war that was ruining and changing his life completely. People like himself and a few other non-Japanese people knew this was not right like the FBI agent that was escorting him out of the train station.
As I read Betty Hutchison’s story, I was stuck on how great of her it was that she wanted to be an army nurse. She wants to do as much as she could, and at that time the most she could do was be a nurse. She tells stories about her being a plastic surgery nurse. These types of nurses were very important because of all the bombing and flame damages to people’s bodies. Many lost limbs and parts of their bodies were badly damaged. Betty basically described that when something like that happens, she comes in and fixes the soldier up, and she was good at it. She also talked about her “romances” as a nurse. The nurses were used as escorts to the officers, which was a big deal. Although these women were just nurses, they played huge rolls.
If Betty knew where the two Japanese nurses went and why they had to leave, would she or you have taken a different stand on thoughts about being a nurse?
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