August Quote by J. G. Ballard

In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and…

— J. G. Ballard

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

— F. Sionil Jose

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment…

— Anonymous

My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.

— Michiko Kakutani

In December of 1990, just before my eighth birthday, I left China for the United States. My father was a political dissident, and after…

— Leana S. Wen

Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, 'So, where were you interned?'

— Tamlyn Tomita

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

— George Takei

I remember reading one of those big history texts in elementary school, and in that whole book there was one paragraph that mentioned that…

— Tamlyn Tomita

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

— Jack Adams

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

— Bobby Thomson

My parents were in the Peace Corps.

— Jeff Vandermeer

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

— Jane Seymour