Peggy's Story

I was born to very loving parents who had to struggle with being an inter-racial couple – my mother is 100% Japanese and my father is a good ole farm boy from Utah that met my mother while stationed in Japan during the Korean War.  Their struggles and hardships of adapting to each other’s ways, customs, traditions, and even languages spilled over onto me and my 2 younger brothers growing up.  Many things I didn’t understand, most hurtful was the father’s family being disrespectful to my mother just because she was Japanese.  However, we turned those struggles around and it helped us to become a very close, loving, strong family – we have always stayed close, took care of each other, and been there for each other through thick and thin!