Japanese Internment Story

This is one of 120,000 Japanese internment stories. Asa was 15 years old when her family was forced out of their newly built upper middle class home in California. On December 7, 1941 was the day Japan “woke the sleeping giant”. February 19, 1942 was the day Asa her mother, father and grandmother were given 10 days notice to evacuate their home and report to a government provided facility for all Japanese-Americans. Asa’s dreams of living a normal American life were ruined the day that her and her family were forced out of their dream home in america. Asa and her family were only allowed the possessions they could carry, due to all of the commotion and stress of leaving her home she now wandered what the future would unfold to her. She wanted to know what her future held for her, yet she was afraid to think of what her fate might be due to the fact she was now under the control of the U.S. government during WWII. Nine
Asa and the boy, Kai, began to get to know each other and they would go out and play on the dir baseball diamonds after school everyday. Asa was never a fan of getting dirty, but she had the best time playing baseball with Kai only because she always won. Once again, right as Asa was settling into life she got news of another new life. On October 31, 1945 Asa was on a train again, this time she was going home. Asa’s home had been sold and yet again, Asa and her family had to start their lives fresh. The new lives of Asa and her family felt as a breath of fresh air due to all of the things they had experienced in the last few years in Topaz. Despite all of the hardships and changes throughout Asa’s life she learned that she should never settle for what she has. Asa now knew that all the things in her life were destined to change, no matter how wonderful or terrible they may