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Read Part 2 >>Why Are They Smiling?My initial confusion about and inability to understand the Issei and Nisei attitude toward their imprisonment contributed to my …
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Read “Part 3: Watermelon Seeds [1 of 2]” >>I am still an only-child. But now my only child identity was not the same as just …
Read part 1 >>The ArmyBy 1943 many of the men in the camp had already volunteered or had been drafted to serve as replacements in …
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I wish I could say that I could relate, but honestly, that would not have been the truth.I knew about the internment camps. I knew …
For more than half a century Donald S. Maeda has been making dental crowns—and is still making them at age 86 in his own Roseville …
Note: Born in Sierra Madre, California in April 1923, Yosh Kuromiya and his family moved to Monrovia, where he attended grammar school, junior high and …
For my father, Nisei playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi, the journey up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the heart of Washington, D.C. …
Read Part 2 >>In all, the documents and letters, even telegrams, showed that there were many pleas for hearings to be held so that he …
Read Part 1 >>In 2003, in response to a request I’d submitted to the National Archives in Washington, DC for documentation relating to my grandfather’s …
These were not letters from a summer camp like the funny one from a young homesick camper as written by songwriter, Allan Sherman, in his …
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