User Clip: "Looking Like the Enemy"
Mary Matsuda Gruenewald's account of the incarceration of Japanese Americans like her family.
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Mary Matsuda Gruenewald's account of the incarceration of Japanese Americans like her family.
The bussiness of self rejection, I hated who I was, I hated how I looked, and I wish I had blonde hair and blue eyes, but i didn't. It was a difficult time
And I loved living there and being one of the kids in the schools until December 7th, 1941. I knew intuitively that my life would change
while we were at Tule Lake there was a way that needed to be done to separate the people who were protesting the evacuation, and those of us who having come from the Pacfic Northwest and who…
"About halfway to the assembly area, the four of us were shocked to see covered army trucks and soldiers dressed in army gear with bayonets on their rivals. From that moment on, I couldn't g…
From that moment on, I became a number and not a person