1960s U.S. Citizenship Papers

1960s U.S. Citizenship Papers

I recently found this paperwork. These pieces belonged to my mother.

As a young girl, she was born and grew up in Japan. She was there when they dropped the bombs during WWII. Growing up my mother didn't talk too much about the time after war. But we did hear several very sad stories of being poor, hungry and hiding in caves after the bombs dropped. Some things I heard, I care not to share.

Some time after the war, I believe 1950, my mother came to the United States for a better life. In late 1967 or early 1968, she finally finalized her citizenship as seen in these papers.

In the 1970s she was feeling ill. American doctors were not sure what the issue was. She traveled back home to Japan to visit. Her brother immediately recognized that she had the same issues as he did. She went to a Japanese doctor who diagnosed her. She had a thyroid disease, what we now call Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. This was from the nuclear fallout from the bombs.

When she passed in 2020 at 89 years old, she was almost 5 ft tall and almost 100 lbs. She got her hair done every week or so and had the Japanese behive haircut or if you like..the Japanese afro. She looked the same for the last 10 years or so.