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Anne DeVico talks about communicating with soldiers during the war.
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Her mother warned her that "nice girls" don't visit New York City.
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With her pregnant sister-in-law due later in the month, Tokuno received eviction notice in August of 1945.
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I would get this terrible feeling that people were watching, looking at me.
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Dressing up was hard to do when shoes were made of cardboard and came in only a few colors.
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There was wonderful patriotism and people willing to fight.
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Returning home, Bill Lansford enjoyed swapping war stories with fellow soldiers and the new kind of freedom.
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Of Mexican descent, Bill Lansford noticed very little discrimination growing up.
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Latino soldiers tended to volunteer for the more dangerous tasks during the war.
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Burnett Miller reads a letter he wrote to his mom while he was overseas.
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Sacramento was a fun place for a kid to grow up.
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We came home and said goodbye to our parents. We had no idea what we were getting into.
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Men had to dig foxholes in the frozen ground at the Battle of the Bulge.
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The war meant airplanes to kids.
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Getting time off on Sunday made one feel like they had a vacation.
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Thanks to African-American blood, Daniel Inouye survived his wounds.
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Describing the action that earned him a Medal of Honor, Inouye said, "What the men told me I did, I said, 'No, it can't be. ' "
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Even a decorated soldier in uniform experienced racial prejudice back home.
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A trip to an internment camp changed his opinion of mainland Japanese Americans.
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For maybe the first time in U.S. history, every citizen seemed involved in the war effort.
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