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A Hoosier Remembers Witnessing Pearl Harbor Attack

Betty Togikawa was 10 years old in 1941, living in Hawaii with her Japanese immigrant parents. She remembers being across the street from the harbor watching the Arizona burn.

"I remember I couldn't eat for about two weeks," she says. "I ate very little. Because it just, the fear just gets hold of you."

As a Japanese-American, one of her biggest concerns was the possibility of being separated from her family.

"My sisters had dual-citizenship, and I was the only one who was all American," she says. "And I thought, if this guy comes over and Japan takes over, what am I going to do? Am I going to be split from the family because I'm American?"

Now living in Indiana, Togikawa raised her own kids here in the Hoosier state.

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