Talk:Maria Tachimi/@comment-5932670-20151016094224

Maria: "I think I was from an era were being a tomboy was a complete sin, I was told many times I would be shot for it one day, I asked the guy at the church if being a tomboy is really a sin, he said "some girls are just born differently, everyone's different, it's not a sin", when I was playing with my Transformers in the park, a 3 year old, yes, A three-year old, went up to me, I was 5 at the time, and he said that playing with them if you are a girl is dangerous, but, he was quite mild-mannered, and I told him I despised My Little Pony, and he accepted and apologized for it, an old woman, who was the wife of one veteran went up to me during a WWII veteran's meeting in 1985, I was 4 at the time, She told me "little girls should be playing with unicorns and dollies, not giant robots.", and she knocked my Thundercracker figure out of my hand, But one of the vets returned it to me, and Ichiro told her off, I remember his exact words "Don't you touch my granddaughter again you Yankee!", and it went into a riot, A US veteran got me away from the fight, And he actually played with me! Ichi-Ichi was the only Japanese veteran there at the meeting, Mikey objected it, but other vets found him to be gentle and timid, I told WWII vets I was Japanese and American, the old woman was later kicked out for harassment."