Akiko Kurokawa was born in 1919 in Kalaheo on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Her parents could not afford to send her to high school, so she worked as a maid and sold pineapples from her father’s farm. She received her high school diploma at the age of seventy-two after her retirement. Fujiko Nonaka was born in Wahiawa, Kauai in 1924. She grew up on the McBryde plantation in Camp Two and spent her childhood working on the plantation with her family. As a teenager, she worked at a restaurant and interacted with the soldiers who frequented the establishment. In this interview, Kurokawa and Nonaka discuss working as children and young adults, life in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor, discrimination against Japanese Americans, the drafting and death of Kurokawa’s brother in World War II, and friendships with soldiers stationed in Hawaii.