Horace Nakamura oral history interview, part 1 of 6, February 24, 2001

Nakamura begins the interview with an introduction, talking about what it was like to grow up in Hawaii, attending McKinley High School and Japanese language school while his father was a fisherman from Hiroshima and his mother came from Fukuoka. He talks about his family and the identity that he had being of Japanese ancestry, yet living in America. He talks a bit more about what it was like to live in Hawaii during this time, including doing lots of manual labor and swimming nude in the rivers. Next, he talks about his whereabouts during the attacks on Pearl Harbor, seeing the pilots and airplanes fly overhead, and debris falling on homes and people. He discusses the loyalty that he felt he had to prove to show that he was really American.

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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/151-Nakamura-Horace-1.m4v

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