The Reaction of People on our Return Home
Heroes Remember
Everything was new to us. We didn’t know how to act with white
people. We didn’t know how to act, we didn’t know how we’d act
with our relatives, friends. That all, that all had to come
into consideration. And there was a lot of anxiety and not
knowing what was on the other end of the rainbow. In a lot of
cases there wasn’t a lot of, there was a lot of disappointment.
Not on purpose, but 4 years, 3 ½ years is a long time. People
change. They wanted to know what happened, what did the
Japanese do to us. What, how can we punish the Japanese back?
That was interviewing us and giving us the, I called it the
third degree. By this time I had spent quite a time in a, three
weeks in hospital, and I think I handled it quite well. Oh the
weight had come back almost to a 135 pounds. It came back fast.
And as soon as I got home, I was walking on a highway, just
outside of Winnipeg, just on the outskirts, and a car came and
picked me up. And he was, then known, he was the president of
Norstar Oil, now known as Shell Oil. He was the president of
Norstar Oil in Winnipeg. And he stopped his car in the middle
of the road on the side. We had a long talk. He says, here’s
my card, you want a job, any day of the week, come and see me.
I did, but not until about four months later.
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