During the war, she hid in an air raid shelter with her children, ages 1, 3, and 5, and her mother-in-law, but as she was escaping, an American soldier shot her in the leg and the bullet pierced her leg. Her painful scars remained for the rest of her life, but fortunately the nerves in her legs were not damaged, and after the war she worked alongside men in hard labor, including manual labor and clearing land in Okinawa. One time she cut a tree with permission on military property and carried her logs there, and another time she carried the crops from her field on her back and walked into town to sell them. Despite the hardships after the war, she raised her children with love. She gave important lessons to her children: “Don’t complain. Don’t be jealous of others. Don’t fight back when someone does something mean to you.”