Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents

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When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean chose to escape his troubled life at the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada and volunteer to serve his country in a foreign country. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Mitsue Sakamoto saw her circle of relatives and her stable community torn apart after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Like many young Canadian soldiers, Ralph was once captured by the Japanese army. He would spend the war in prison camps, enduring pestilence, beatings and starvation, in addition to a journey by hell ship to Japan to perform slave labour, whilst around him his friends and countrymen perished. Back in Canada, Mitsue and her circle of relatives were expelled from their home by the federal government and forced to spend years eking out an existence in rural Alberta, working other people’s land for a dollar a day.

By the end of the war, Ralph emerged broken but a survivor. Mitsue, worn down by years of back-breaking labour, needed to start in every single place again in Medicine Hat, Alberta. A generation later, at a high school dance, Ralph’s daughter and Mitsue’s son fell in love.

Although the war toyed with Ralph’s and Mitsue’s lives and threatened to erase their humanity, these two brave individuals come what may surmounted enormous transgressions and learned to forgive. Without this forgiveness, their grandson Mark Sakamoto would never have come to be.

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