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“This is the way it ought to be, he thought to himself, to be able to dance with a girl you like and really get a kick out of it because everything鈥� on an even keel and one鈥檚 worries are of the usual ones of unpaid bills and sickness in the family and being late to work too often. Wh can鈥檛 it be that way for me? Nobody鈥檚 looking twice at us. Nobody鈥檚 asking me where I was during the war or what the hell I am doing back on the coast. There鈥檚 no trouble to be had without looking for it. Everything鈥檚 the same, just as it used to be. No bad feelings except for those that have always been and probably always will. It鈥檚 a matter of attitude. Mine needs changing. I鈥檝e got to love the world the way I used to. I鈥檝e got to love it and the people so I鈥檒l feel good, and feeling good will make life worthwhile. There鈥檚 no point in crying about what鈥檚 done. There鈥檚 a place for me and Emi and Freddie here on the dance floor and out there in the hustle of things if we鈥檒l let it be that way. I鈥檝e been fighting it and hating it and letting my bitterness against myself and Ma and Pa and even Taro throw the whole universe out of perspective. I want only to go on living and be happy. I鈥檝e only to let myself do so.”
John Okada, No-No Boy

“They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.”
--President Bill Clinton, quoted in Honor Before Glory