Lily Horio and Shari Tamashiro
Recorded
June 4, 2011
43:22 minutes
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Id:
MBY007942
Description
Lily Horio (81) talks with her friend Shari Tamashiro (38) about her family and growing up in Hawaii during WWII.Subject Log / Time Code
L remembers not feeling afraid because her parents didn’t panic. Shohei Miyasato, Fumiko Kuchiki. L’s older brother in Japan studying at a temple at beginning of WWII.
Ji Koan Hongwanji. Reverend Yamasato. L’s family moved to temple because the Reverend had no family.
L remembers her relative helping her find her mother’s birthplace and meeting a woman who knew L’s parents.
L remembers her dad coming home and not knowing what he’d done.
Jimmy Miyasoto - L’s brother, used to be 3rd from the bottom in his class and comforting his mother about the other other 2 mothers. L sees her dad in Jimmy as an intermediary.
Participants
- Lily Horio
- Shari Tamashiro
Venue / Recording Kit
Keywords
- Appearance
- Battle of Okinawa
- community worthies
- family members in history
- Fumiko Kuchiki
- historical events/people
- Hongwanji
- Internment
- Japanese-American
- Jimmy Miyasato
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- Okinawan
- Prejudice
- relief effort
- Reverend Earnest Hunt
- Reverend Yamasato
- school day memories
- Shohei Miyasoto
- social beliefs and practices
- The Pig Brigade
- World War II
Subjects
- Coming Of Age
- Community Businesses
- Community Characters
- Community History
- Community Organizations
- Discrimination
- Earliest Memories
- Farm Life
- Fear
- Genealogy
- Histories
- Identity
- Immigration Stories
- Neighborhood Life
- Parents
- Pearl Harbor
- Racism
- Schools
- Siblings
- Students
- Teachers
- Town Life
- Traumatic Memories
- Urban Life