This is a story about friendship. The lady who told me this
story is now in her 90's. After World War 2, there was much
mistrust and prejudice towards the Japanese Americans. This
woman told me that she and her husband (who had been away
for 3 years in the military because of the war) became friends
with a Japanese American couple. It started out with their daughters
becoming friends, then dinner, playing cards every week,
and eventually into a life-long friendship.
She told me that people were angry and would ask them "Why are
you friends with them?" And this is what she said to me, "They
were humans too. They were our friends." These two couples
stayed friends through, sickness, distance, up until death.
I am so lucky to have heard this story.
I hope that I will be a friend like that.
(photos courtesy of: google image)
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