Robert Matsui

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

I apologize when I'm wrong.