did not qualifyTom McGrath (no party preference).

Americans of Japanese descent who served their country while their families remained imprisoned in concentration camps.I think that Ill remember this forever.

She warns that if we go out for private relocation not to go where there are already too many Japanese.Ted had been the patriotic one who led the dedication of this same flagpole that now paid tribute to Ted and the many Nisei sons who would Go for Broke for their country.churches from the Presbyterian Union all over the country sent gifts to the Japanese American children.

Thats how she earned her 16 dollars a month to buy us our clothes and ice skates … she must have saved for a lot of months to do that!— Kaz Shiroyama interview with JFO 11/7/04That same Christmas.not in the comfortable surroundings of her California home.

vegetables and such that they could spare and took these back to the store in exchange for the gifts.

terrible news reached Heart Mountain.members of the Shin Issei community.

Shin Issei women tell stories of precarity.and the Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and Teaching from the UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association.

She is also a professor at the Intercultural Research Institute.where they were restricted by gendered social structures.