Title: "Editorial: Land of Their Birth," Seattle Times, 10/14/1941, (ddr-densho-56-510)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-510

Land of Their Birth

This is the kind of news one enjoys reading these days.

A young American-born Japanese is serving in the United States Army in a California camp. The camp seemed a little barren and dreary. The youth enlisted the aid of members of a California Japanese nursery association. They provided 6,000 shrubs and plants to beautify the camp.

There are 3,000 American-born Japanese youths in that camp. We venture the belief that the very great majority of those young fellows are equally loyal to this land of their birth. The fact is, we have not read of any other native son doing a stunt like that.