Life After Camp

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After the war was over, all of the people in Paul's camp were given a bus ticket to where they wanted to live and $25.00. He and his family didn't want to go back to California. They had some friends in Overton, NV., so they went there and farmed again. My grandfather sharecropped with a man he knew until he rented his own farm.

My grandmother was a very intelligent woman. She had a teaching degree at 17 and taught art in high school. Her parents were friends with my grandfather's parents before they were married. She didn't have to go to an internment camp during the war because she lived in Nevada where they didn't enforce the evacuation. I never knew my grandmother. She died in a car accident right after I was born.

My grandparents had 4 children, but one died when she was a baby. My mother was the oldest. My uncle Alan was next and my aunt Tami is the youngest.

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