One day my dad looked out at the endless desert and decided then and there to build a baseball field He said people needed something to do in Camp We weren't in a camp that was fun like summer camp Ours was in the middle of nowhere and we were behind a barbed wire fence Soldiers with guns made sure we stayed there and the man in the tower saw everything we did no matter where we were As Dad began walking over the dry cracked dirt I asked him again why we were here Because he said America is at war with Japan and the government thinks that Japanese Americans can't be trusted But it's wrong that we're in here We're Americans too Then he made a mark in the dirt and mumbled something about where the infield bases should be
Back in school before Camp I was shorter and smaller than the rest of the kids I was always the last to be picked for any team when we played games Then a few months ago it got even worse The kids started to call me names and nobody talked to me even though I didn't do anything bad At the same time the radio kept talking about some place far away called Pearl Harbor One day Mom and Dad came to get me out of school Mom cried a lot because we had to move out of our house real fast throwing away a lot of our stuff A bus took us to a place where we had to live in horse stalls We stayed there for a while until we came here
