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doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-143)

Excerpt: "As I was walking down the main street of Seattle, I saw a large crowd gathered on the corner."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-143/

doc Student essay: "Foreword" (ddr-densho-171-97)

Excerpt: "In this paragraph I put myself in the shoes of a loyal American Youth of Tomorrow."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-97/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-166)

Excerpt: "Perhaps many of us partially realize what this simple noun 'War' actually means."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-166/

doc Student paper: "A Radio Skit" (ddr-densho-171-130)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-130/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-144)

Excerpt: "'I helped to win that World War II!'" No, I wasn't in the Army Air Corps, or the Navy, or even the Army; I stayed in the home front and did my part there."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-144/

doc Student essay: "The Future" (ddr-densho-171-116)

Excerpt: "I dream often of being a man married with a important job in a big concern."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-116/

doc Student essay: "Mission accomplished" (ddr-densho-171-146)

Excerpt: "'Well boys we're allmost home,' say the pilot to his crew."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-146/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-139)

Excerpt: "If you have had a person dear to you pass away, you have felt the lonely, lost, and chilling feeling when you are all left along."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-139/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-115)

Excerpt: "To my opinion, if the argument between two countries gets beyond the point of just debating, war is the only way out."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-115/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-173)

Excerpt: "Mother nature has taken her own course again and we are having rain for too many days."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-173/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-124)

Excerpt: "War! It is just a 3-letter word, but what a lot of sorrow and bloodshed a little word like that can hold."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-124/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-178)

Excerpt: "He sits there on the gayly colored cusion, as I try vigorously to concentrate on my homework."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-178/

doc Essay: "Preparation for Peace" (ddr-densho-180-3)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-180-3/

doc Essay: Untitled (ddr-densho-180-4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-180-4/

doc Essay: "Recreation" (ddr-densho-180-6)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-180-6/

doc Essay: "The Importance of Recreation" (ddr-densho-180-7)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-180-7/

doc Essay: "How Education is Important in Preparing for Peace" (ddr-densho-180-5)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-180-5/

doc Essay: "Preparation for Peace" (ddr-densho-180-1)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-180-1/

doc Essay: "The Heritage of the Nisei" (ddr-densho-180-2)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-180-2/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 45, No. 25 (December 20, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-51)

The holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that included personal addresses and phone numbers to better foster communications between Japanese American communities. These addresses and phone numbers have been redacted to help protect the privacy of Japanese American communities. Please contact Densho to request the original version.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-29-51/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 62, No. 6 (February 11, 1966) (ddr-pc-38-6)

Select article titles: "Nisei also 'Demonstrated' for Equal Rights, Yoshimura Reminds" (p.1); "Anti-Nisei Myths of WW2 Exploded at Snowstormed D.C. Installation" (p.1); "'First Death' Strikes the Men of Lt. Yoshida's Platoon" (p.1); "Who really 'discovered' America: Norsemen, Italian or the Japanese? Our Ideas Below" (p.3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-38-6/

doc Tule Lake monograph (ddr-csujad-26-1)

Unpublished manuscript includes a collection of diary entries, letters, and essays written by school students incarcerated at the Tule Lake camp and collected through the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). The writings include first-person descriptions of travel to the Tule Lake camp, adapting to camp, limitations of camp, day-to-day camp life, family life, community …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-26-1/

doc Bibliography of Japanese in America, Part II, Books and Pamphlets, 1937-42 (ddr-csujad-19-37)

This document is the second part of the three parts for the Bibliography of Japanese in America. It presents the information regarding the books and pamphlets published or printed from the period of 1937 to 1942. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: WRA_01-23_02

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-19-37/

doc Youth, no. 3 (August 1943) (ddr-csujad-42-178)

A literary publication, "Wakodo = Youth" no. 3, published by Gila Young People's Association in the Gila River incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tak_01_86_001

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-42-178/

doc Composition book (ddr-csujad-5-295)

A composition book including Japanese handwritten essays for practicing Japanese writing. It belongs to Hatusno Hotty Okine. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_03_29_001

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-5-295/