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Helen
Murao, a 16-year-old orphan, had to care for two younger brothers
in the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho.
I
had a job to do with my brothers, and I ran them like a drill
sergeant .... I wouldn't let them be out after nine o'clock,
I made them go to school, I made them study... I had them help
me scrub their clothes so that they would be clean. Then somewhere
during that time I came to feel, well, we're going to show these
people. We're going to show the world. They are not going to
do this to me; nobody is going to make me feel this miserable.
The United States government may have made me leave my home,
but they're going to be sorry . . . .1'm going to prevail, my
will is going to prevail, my own life will prevail.
Helen
Murao, quoted in John Tateishi, And Justice for All,
46.
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