Synopsis: When her father left Japan, his mother told him never to return: there was no future there for him. Shinji Sato arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the Land of Opportunity even though he could not become a citizen. He and his wife started a farm and worked in the fields together with their nine children. At the outbreak of World War II, when Kiyo, the eldest, was eighteen, the Satos were ordered to Poston Internment Camp. Though they had lived the US for two decades and their children were citizens, they were suddenly uprooted and imprisoned by the government. Nearly a year later, Kiyo was released with special permission to attend college, but after graduation she was rejected by many nursing schools due to her ethnicity. She ultimately became a captain in the Army Nursing Corps. Eventually, her siblings, too, all entered professions. And as soon as the law changed, her parents finally became American citizens. About the Author: Kiyo Sato was born in Sacramento, California, in 1923 to immigrants from Japan. In 1942, her family was sent to the Poston Internment Camp in Arizona. She has a Master's in Nursing from Western Reserve University and served in the USAF Nurse Corps, where she rose to the rank of Captain. She lives in Folsom, California, with her husband.
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