![]() ![]() Ironically, while being held captive as a threat to the country, second-generation Japanese-American men were drafted into the Army. Woven into the story are historically significant facts. “He didn’t sing Don’t Fence Me In out of protest… It just happened to be a hit song.” One amusing part of the story is about how the camp residents entertained themselves. His interrogator asked, “Who do you want to win this war?” He answered, “When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you want them to stop fighting?” During interrogation, he explained that the 50-gallon drums on his boat contained bait, not oil. He was a fisherman, and they charged him with delivering oil to Japanese submarines. Just prior to the internment, Jeanne’s father was arrested and taken to North Dakota. She tells the story of life at the Manzanar camp, as well as her family’s difficulty in resuming a normal life after the camp closed, including her personal struggle to fit in with white kids at school. ![]() government forced Japanese-American families from their homes, and relocated them to internment camps. ![]() Houstonįarewell to Manzanar is the autobiography of Jeanne Wakatsuki, who was seven years old in 1942, when the U.S. ![]()
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