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This is the way it ought to be, he thought to himself, to be able to dance with a girl you like and really get a kick out of it because everything_ on an even keel and one__ worries are of the usual ones of unpaid bills and sickness in the family and being late to work too often. Wh can__ it be that way for me? Nobody__ looking twice at us. Nobody__ asking me where I was during the war or what the hell I am doing back on the coast. There__ no trouble to be had without looking for it. Everything__ the same, just as it used to be. No bad feelings except for those that have always been and probably always will. It__ a matter of attitude. Mine needs changing. I__e got to love the world the way I used to. I__e got to love it and the people so I__l feel good, and feeling good will make life worthwhile. There__ no point in crying about what__ done. There__ a place for me and Emi and Freddie here on the dance floor and out there in the hustle of things if we__l let it be that way. I__e been fighting it and hating it and letting my bitterness against myself and Ma and Pa and even Taro throw the whole universe out of perspective. I want only to go on living and be happy. I__e only to let myself do so.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.