Those damn Japs. We all had the same problems. To us they were neighbors, they were farmers, they had to deal with the same things we dealt with. Many of them were doing so well, and people just took their land and everything they had while they were away. Tim and Nancy Watanabe are on a train back to their home in California.
Japan has surrendered, the war is over.
They have spent almost the entire war, more than three years, in a relocation camp in Arkansas. It is September 1945. Memories of camp are fresh in their minds. Guards in towers. Memories of waiting and uncertainty.