Helen Amerman Manning Collection ddr-densho-171
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Student essay (ddr-densho-171-104)
Excerpt: "A painful memory lingers in the heart of many Niseis -- a memory of those dark somber days of 1941, after the unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor."
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Student essay (ddr-densho-171-105)
Excerpt: "Guns are roaring, bullets whizzing, men dying like rats, so that this world would be a decent place to live."
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Student essay (ddr-densho-171-107)
Excerpt: "I think that war isi the most useless way to settle problems among nations, but as long as there are people on this world there will be war."
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Student essay (ddr-densho-171-108)
Excerpt: "All the children in the class sing lustily and joyously, unconsciously showing their love of country in their well fed healthy bodies and alert minds."
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Student essay: "Is it fair to the fighting men?" (ddr-densho-171-109)
Excerpt: "Is it fair to the soldiers, sailors, and marines, who fight in blizzards, snow, hot deserts, and mud up to their knees; when miners, factory workers..."
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Student essay: "What I think of War" (ddr-densho-171-110)
Excerpt: "I don't think there is any future in having wars."
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Student essay (ddr-densho-171-111)
Excerpt: "A bugle call fades away softly. Memorial Day -- U.S.A."
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Student essay: "To the Honored Dead" (ddr-densho-171-112)
Excerpt: "This is to the honored dead! This is to the unselfish ones who laid aside the flourishing pen and substituted for it a civilization with the hammer and saw..."
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Student essay: "Killed in Action" (ddr-densho-171-114)
Excerpt: "People only knew him as a dissipated boy whom no one would associate with, except his few degenerate friends."
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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."
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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."
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Student essay: "Could Be...?" (ddr-densho-171-117)
Excerpt: "Why, what has become of the Niseis? I can't seem to find them in there usual 'Little Tokyos.'"
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Student essay: "WAR!!!" (ddr-densho-171-118)
Excerpt: "War, the root of all evil has again descented upon humanity."
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Student essay: "Hope" (ddr-densho-171-119)
Excerpt: "No matter how we go against the evil spirit of war, sooner or latter tangle in its 'web of death.'"
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Student essay: "What War Means to Me" (ddr-densho-171-120)
Excerpt: "To many people, it means fighting over the land for what we had thought we had won in 1918."
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Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-121)
Excerpt: "As civilizations have progressed, wars have become more and more destructive."
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Student essay (ddr-densho-171-122)
Excerpt: "World War II has meant to me unjust evacuation of citizens of the United States to assembly centers very poorly and hastily constructed."
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Student essay: "What War Means to Me" (ddr-densho-171-123)
Excerpt: "War means to me a futile destruction to mankind."
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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."
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Student essay: "How War Effects Man in theh fighting front" (ddr-densho-171-125)
Excerpt: "When many men go out to war and across the sea, at least nine out of ten may not come back."
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Student essay (ddr-densho-171-126)
Excerpt: "Wish this evacuation business has separated me from my friends."
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Student essay (ddr-densho-171-127)
Excerpt: "War, as everyone else says, is 'HELL.'" I wouldn't know what it is, for I have never experienced the horrors of it."
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Student essay (ddr-densho-171-128)
Excerpt: "Our country is now at war but not as wars of yesteryear, many modern and scientific device are in use."
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Text of high school speech (ddr-densho-171-129)
Excerpt: "Many people will say that the solutions that we have discussed are idealogical, that they are impractical, and that they are hopeless."