Letters of Conscience

2 de Agosto de 2007 • John Saito, Jr.

I’m missing my good American friends very much. I wish this horrible war would stop right now so I could go back to my home farm and see the old Palos Verdes again.—excerpt of a letter to teacher Afton Dill Nance, date September 13, 1943, from Amache, Colorado She wrote them telegrams, mailed letters of encouragement, and sent care packages that included books, checker sets, a fingernail clipper, cookies, fresh cherries, and ripe peaches. On one student’s birthday, she sent …