Daughter of Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

Author:Alan Brennert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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A week later an Army team descended on Manzanar, and two separate “registration forms” were distributed to all households. The first, for Nisei men, was a Selective Service form, “Statement of United States Citizen of Japanese Ancestry.” The second, given to Nisei women and all Issei, was a War Relocation Authority form, “Application for Leave Clearance”—“leave” as in relocation via the work furlough program. The questions were mostly innocuous, asking for the registrants’ sex, age, marital status—but two were far from innocuous, requiring unambiguous, unqualified yes/no answers:

Question 27 asked Nisei men:

Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered?

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