Only What We Could Carry

Surprising in both its emotional and intellectual range, Only What We Could Carry brings us intimate voices that express not only fear and anger, but humor, compassion, and self-doubt. Family photographs and original works of art add a visual record of life before and within the camps. Posters, political cartoons, and other memorabilia reflect the climate outside the internment camp gates.

Acknowledgments

ix

Preface

xi

A Note to the Reader

xv

Introduction

xvii

I

The Day We Left

3

(8)

Ben Iijima

Editorials in the Wake of Pearl Harbor

11

(16)

Eyewitness to Pearl Harbor

27

(4)

Clay H. Musick

Pearl Harbor Remembered

31

(2)

Kay Uno

The Total Community

33

(2)

Ron Dellums

War Comes to the Church Door

35

(16)

Eleanor Breed

Can't Tell

51

(2)

Nellie Wong

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

53

(4)

Maya Angelou

Photo Essay: An Uncertain Future

57

(12)

II

Desert Exile

69

(13)

Yoshiko Uchida

Letters from a Justice Department Camp

82

(5)

Isohei Hatashita

Citizen 13660

87

(10)

Mine Okubo

Stray Clouds

97

(7)

Toyo Kazato

Farewell to Manzanar

104

(4)

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Photo Essay: How I Spent the War

108

(11)

A Far Country: Poems from the Arkansas Camps

119

(2)

To the Stars

121

(5)

George Takei

A Teacher at Topaz

126

(12)

Eleanor Gerard Sekerak

A Young Nisei's Diary

138

(4)

Stanley Hayami

Recollections of Heart Mountain

142

(11)

Peter Simpson

III

Statement to the Commission

153

(20)

Elaine Black Yoneda

Insufficient Care

173

(5)

Mabel Ota

Winter Night Sentry: Poems from the Justice Department Camps

178

(2)

Hawaii End of the Rainbow

180

(11)

Kazuo Miyamoto

Autobiography of an Italian Internee

191

(13)

Ezio Pinza

Adios to Tears

204

(16)

Seiichi Higashide

A WRA Center Lexicon of Japanese American Terms

220

(8)

Yule Greetings, Friends!

228

(9)

Globularius Schraubi

The Legend of Miss Sasagawara

237

(15)

Hisaye Yamamoto

One Happy Family

252

(3)

Toshio Mori

A Thousand Stitches

255

(8)

Henry Sugimoto

IV

A Challenge to American Sportsmanship

263

(7)

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Betrayed

270

(9)

Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Campus Report

279

(8)

Lillian Ota

Preface to No-No Boy

287

(5)

John Okada

Beyond Loyalty

292

(21)

Minoru Kiyota

Draft Resisters at Heart Mountain

313

(12)

Frank Seishi Emi

Poetic Reflections of the Tule Lake Internment Camp

325

(5)

Violet de Cristoforo

No Flower in Vase: Poems from Tule Lake

330

(3)

A Nisei Requests Repatriation

333

(8)

V

Presidential Statement

341

(2)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Journey to Washington

343

(5)

Daniel Inouye

Action from a Sergeant's Diary

348

(15)

Min Hara

One Replacement's Story

363

(11)

Stanley Izumigawa

Letter to Father

374

(3)

George Saito

Light One Candle

377

(11)

Solly Ganor

What Flower Worth the Pain

388

(5)

Afterword

393

(7)

Appendix A: Historical Documents

400

(13)

Appendix B: Chronology

413

(5)

Appendix C: Assembly Centers and Interment Camps

418

(4)

Glossary

422

(3)

Permissions

425

(6)

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