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• W291592719 abstract "On this occasion when you are paying tribute to the legacy of the Isseis, who through their lifelong toil and devotion have prepared the way for their descendants, I thought it might be appropriate for me to share with you my personal account of how I came to know the world of the Isseis through our shared life in the internment camps. In the fateful year of 1941,1 was studying in Berkeley, California. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, I found myself eating canned beans in the Alameda County jail, and from there I was shipped to Santa Fe and then to Lordsburg, New Mexico, with my fellow internees, all of whom were Isseis. During my internment camp days, I often read and reread the story of Daniel in the old testament. According to the story, which is familiar to all of you, Daniel's enemies persuaded the king to sign a document that was designed to cast him in the den of lions, and when he learned one day that the document had been signed, we are told that Daniel went to his chamber where he had windows open toward Jerusalem, and he got down upon his knees three times and prayed. This story, too, had special significance to all of us then, because in those days we all prayed with our windows open toward home. Like Daniel, who was vexed by the uncertainty of his life, my fellow internees were haunted by ambiguities which enveloped their existence. Everyday, as the bright New Mexico sun faded behind a skyline decorated only with sagebrush, we all gathered together and shared our frustrations and problems. It was through these daily contacts that I came to know the Isseis. I was fascinated to listen to the endless tales of these new friends, who had crossed the Pacific earlier with adventuring hearts. the time I knew them, however, their faces, once youthful and proud, bore the creases of years of hardship. Many of them were from California, Oregon and Washington, but some were from Hawaii and Alaska. All of them had worked tirelessly throughout their adult life on their farms or in their shops, enduring humiliation and discrimination, with a firm determination to provide a better future for their offspring. I could readily understand what a traumatic and baffling experience it was for them suddenly to be uprooted from their homes because of war on the grounds that they were not citizens of this country, when by law they could not seek citizenship. And as we walked together along the barbed wire in the daytime, or as we tried to cover ourselves against the cold at night in the drafty wooden barracks, I could sense that my Issei friends were deeply troubled, not so much by the experience of the physical discomfort or even the loss of their homes and property but more by the sense of uncertainty they felt concerning their own future or their wives and children from whom they were separated. It was on such an occasion that I suddenly realized the emotional impact of the Hebrew Psalm: By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion! They too must have prayed with their windows open toward home. Even now, I cherish my memories of those fellow internees, who had allowed me to glimpse into the world of the early Japanese immigrants through our life together. Many of them originally came from the areas of Japan which had been greatly affected by the transition from the feudal regime to the imperial rule that took place in 1868. The year 1868 marked not only the political upheaval but also social, economic, and cultural changes as well. Gone were the social and political institutions of the feudal age, and with them many of the traditional values and mores of the culture. In this circumstance, some of the ambitious youths came to America, the alleged land of opportunities and fabulous fortunes. Little did those young Japanese immigrants realize that they were coming to that part of America which had earlier vigorously recruited Chinese laborers and then subjected them to virtual slavery when they arrived. …" @default.
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