Alfred Kaneo Dote's parents were from Hiroshima, but he was born in Sacramento in 1928 and lived there until he was 8, when he moved to Japan with his brothers and mother. He discusses his experiences in school and working in a factory in Japan after the war with the US began. He was at school when the bombing occurred, and he describes the dead bodies and other horrible sights he witnessed in the aftermath. His younger brother's face was burned, and he discusses treating it with oil because there were no hospitals to take him to. One of his older sisters died in the bombing; he shares the experience of going to collect her body. After the war, in 1948, he was in touch with his uncle, who was in the US during the war and had been interned at the Tule Lake internment camp; this uncle helped him return to the US. He was a "school boy" for two years in Oakland and San Francisco, and then he served in the Korean War, during which he met his wife in Sendai; they were married in 1955. His friend Kuramoto became the head of a hibakusha club, which Alfred attended with his wife. He talks about attending the meetings and his feelings concerning the lack of support from the US government for hibakusha.
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