Granada, Colorado
Why should the bombing of Pearl Harbor by a country practically foreign to most of us affect us any more than the next fellow?
Life was pretty smooth again until around March when another word hit all the limelight. EVACUATION!
Through martial law, General De Witt proclaimed the removal of all Japanese from the coast for the security of the nation.
So two years ago last April, we said ‘good-bye’ to the dear old gang and the great movement was begun.
First, there were the assembly centers. Remember those tar paper and pine barracks which provided us with such cramped quarters for several months? It was quite a strange, new life, wasn’t it?
Then came the relocation centers.
Kanameishi, B. (1944). Onlooker Yearbook. In My Dear America. Amache High School.