日系アメリカ人兵役体験記録データベース
Kiyo Sato-Viacrucis
For entertainment, I usually went outside the base taking the train to Tokyo for shows, Kabuki, etc. Most of my friends seemed happy with steak dinners and dancing at the officers' club.
My most memorable times were spent exploring the countryside by bicycle with my brother George who was stationed in Korea and would fly down for visits. When I signed out a car, it was my brother (enlisted) who was saluted at the gate (as he was driving).
The funniest experience was the time my cousin (civil service) and I were on our way to a movie in Tokyo. I was not in uniform. Two GI's approached us. 'You, me, we go have takusan good time,' one of them said and showed us a Miyako Hotel card. 'Let's pretend we don't speak English,' I whispered to my cousin. We kept up a spirited conversation with 'Eigo wakarimasen,' 'Sukoshi,' etc. until it became so hilarious that I was about to burst out laughing, so I ran around the corner leaving my cousin.
Each year our VFW (Nisei Post 8985) is asked to speak to hundreds of students from second grade to colleges. Hopefully we are creating a respect for each other and a love of country.
1) Steve Seiji Sato, 442nd RCT
2) Sanji Don Sato, Army Occupation, Japan
3) Ronald Aizo Sato, US Air Force, Hawaii
4) George Kozo Sato, US Air Force, Korea and
5) Pete Naoshi Sato, US Army, stateside.
I practiced as a consultant in preschool Vision Screening and Blackbird Vision Screening System in Sacramento, CA.
Master in Nursing is from Case Western Reserve University, School of Nursing, Cleveland OH in 1948. Bachelor of Science from Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI in 1944.
Invented the Blackbird preschool vision screening system in 1975.
