On 10/12/2015 10:50 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 6:16:24 PM UTC-10, wrote:
>> On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 4:45:20 PM UTC-7, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On 10/12/2015 1:06 PM, Embudo wrote:
>>>> On 10/12/2015 4:11 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>> The pakes really shook up the local white populace on the mainland who
>>>>> responded against the yellow peril with miscegenation laws and laws
>>>>> against further immigration. Those guys had it tough - not enough
>>>>> females! Over here, the pake men took Hawaiian women as wives and the
>>>>> rest is Hawaiian history.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dunno if you're much on historical fiction, but this was one heck of a
>>>> good book.
>>>>
>>>> Taught me the difference between the Issei and Nissei:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014...=1&*entries*=0
>>>>
>>>> Heart Mountain Paperback - December 1, 1989
>>>> by Gretel Ehrlich
>>>>
>>>> From Publishers Weekly
>>>> This first novel builds itself around the WW II internment of some
>>>> 100,000 Japanese-Americans. Ehrlich's assiduous research is evident,
>>>> but, worthy as her intentions may be, her characters often are only
>>>> wafer-thin. "The novel succeeds less as a full-blooded work of fiction
>>>> than as a compassionate documentary," noted PW .
>>>> Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
>>>>
>>>> From Library Journal
>>>> When Japanese-Americans were relocated during World War II, about 10,000
>>>> were sent to Heart Mountain Relocation Camp in Wyoming.
>>
>> I worked for a fellow who was a kid in the camps. From Stockton, his
>> family managed to hang on to their fruit ranch. He grew up with Maxine
>> Hong Kingston, who wrote Tripmaster Monkey and other books.
>>
>> Anyhow, I learned that Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were not interned
>> because there were too darned many. And if you agreed to move to the
>> Midwest and East Coast you could get out of the camps. This was the
>> situation of Japanese-Americans I knew in Chicago, and of my wife's
>> friend who grew up in Rochester NY.
>>
>>> I'm not much into fiction but I'll check it out. My dad had a somewhat
>>> different experience during the war. He was in high school on December
>>> 7, 1941 and saw the planes flying in. Surprisingly, quite a few of my
>>> friend's parents saw the attack. I always thought it strange that people
>>> would be up that early on a Sunday. His high school class would be sent
>>> on various projects in preparation for the expected invasion - which
>>> never came.
>>>
>>> When he joined the army, he was the only nisei in his unit. His sarge
>>> ordered him to not sleep in the barracks with the other guys. He had to
>>> go find places to sleep and when he did, he had one eye open at all
>>> times. Hee hee.
>>>
>>> My dad was able to travel all throughout the Pacific while he was in the
>>> Army and had many experiences. He's always been a guy that loved to
>>> travel the world and meet people and see things. These days he has a lot
>>> of trouble getting around so his days of travel are pretty much over but
>>> I'll always marvel at the times he had...
>>
>> This doesn't make a lot of sense unless you mean after WW II. The Army
>> was focused on Europe, except for the Army Air Corps. And the Army
>> put Japanese-Americans in Europe lest they turn out to be traitors after
>> all.
>
> You are completely correct about this. He was part of the Japan occupational forces so his chances of being shot at were slim - at least from the Japanese. He said he was once asked to go to the Philippines and of course he said "sure." He was about to get on the plane when an officer stopped him and said the guy sending him was a idiot. Those Filipinos would have shot my dad on sight! That would have been the end of me - also the start!
>


Wow.

That's fate in action!