Children

[Angela Chong]

I was also thinking of the children after what they lived through during WWII. Especially those that were taken from the cities during the war. In our other Monday night session Samuel Yamashita mentioned that older kids would take food from the younger and they would cry themselves to sleep. I can't imagine that it was as simple as going back home after, if they had a home and family to return to. There really wasn't much discussion of the effects on those children, and you know they dealt with issues after the fact. I wonder if there aren't diaries of these kids, where they processed what they couldn't talk about?