Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence by Linda Tamura

Author:Linda Tamura [Tamura, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, Pacific Northwest (OR; WA), Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, Asian American Studies, Minority Studies
ISBN: 9780295804460
Google: qQZLKFhwjXQC
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2012-12-15T16:06:58+00:00

THE DISCIPLINE BARRACK BOYS RETURN

Their hometown's sullied image easily deterred two other GIs. Newly released from Fort Leavenworth's disciplinary barracks in May 1946, neither Fred Sumoge nor Kenjiro Hayakawa considered returning permanently. “I heard bad things,” explained Sumoge. “That little town, I think I read someplace, was the worst city in the U.S. as far as nihonjin [Japanese] discrimination…. It started with this nihonjin honor roll…. I just can't think of living there.” For six months, Sumoge did rejoin his family at their fifteen-acre strawberry, cherry, and apple farm, which had been without care during the war. Finding work driving a one-and-a-half-ton truck at another farm, he hauled and unloaded almost three hundred forty- to fifty-pound lug boxes of apples per day at the AGA warehouse, which, by the fall of 1946, was accepting produce from Nikkei farmers. Hayakawa's relatives no longer resided in the valley after losing their farm lease at the end of the war. While visiting friends, however, he and Sumoge met again. “What are you doing here?” the surprised Sumoge asked his compatriot. Despite more than two years of imprisonment together, they did not know they shared ties to the discredited valley.

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