Manzanar, Calif.

Dec. 25, 1943

Dear Brothers,

Here today it is christmas. It doesn't seem like christmas at all & the days don't ever seem to change at all.

Well, finally pop caught the flu & the way he acts now seems that he's getting much better & will get up pretty soon. Remember I was sick on christmas last year. Well, pop has it this time. Many of the people still have the flu and every place has had the flu.

Since you guys haven't been writing lately it seems that you are too busy to do anything. Well, we hope you guys write soon. Have you been Christmas shopping a lot?????

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Our latin classes put on an assembly & it turned out real good. We also had a assembly on the last day of school. It was like a concert. During 2nd per. of the last day our latin class went caroling around to all of the classes & we turned out pretty good. School has been out since thursday & we will go back to school on the 6th of January. Swell huh. No worries about school. school is so boring. I can hardly wait till the day of graduation. Dr. Woods, the meanest teacher of the whole school actually gave us kids candy. What a teacher!

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On Christmas eve I went to the show & saw Mr. Big Gosh, a good picture for teen agers. We sure do see a lot of movies. We see mostly war pictures like "The moon is down" "This land is mine" Having all of the Nazi's march in to certain towns & so forth. Gosh, it isn't very cold when it snows. But walking in the snow isn't too hot either. The last time it snow it rained first & over that it snow & it was real slushy. That day there wasn't any school. Man it really was luck for us.

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Towru, thanks again for the candy & card.

Joe, thanks again for the card. Also the Yoshi P. Ohi for the nice card.

Also thank Mrs. Takemura for the nice stockings that mom received & also for the card & letters.

I knew all about the socks Towru, because Mick Mikami asked me but mom didn't know about it. Well, tonight we're supposed to have a ham dinner but I don't know if thats true.

Signing off.

Just

Masako

P.S. Be sure to write