I am filing this for my Mother since Dad died in Internment Camp at Minidoka, Idaho. He died November 6, 1944. He was never sick a day in his life, but leaving a mink farm and family and put in jails in Alaska (such as Wrangell, Ketchikan and Annette Island) before being sent to the lower 49 states with the other Japanese in Lordsburg N. Mexico and I'm sure there were others before they were sent to Minidoka, Idaho, where he had a heart attack and my Mother was notified that she and family should join him, he was put in Oxygen Tank and was in it till he died. My mother and family were not allowed to leave until the Government decided when they should leave. They were put in fenced guarded concentration camps and were not treated as U.S. Citizens from the time they left Wrangell, they were put in a building that had bars all over by the Seattle King Street Railroad Station. My Mother had to take my Brother john jr, Sister Shirley, Nieces Marjorie, Bella and Stella (my Father and Mother brought them up since they were babies since their Mother died). Yes we lost money, my Mother only has her Social Security which is nearly minimu, and she is a wheel chair person and will be 90 years old this September. My Dad was always a well provider for all of us, but we did not plan that far ahead since we didn't think there would be a war and that he would be taken away from us.

My Father left as survivors: Daughers Edna, Margaret (Who were not interned since they were married) Shirley and Jane (who the Government had to decide whether or not I had to be interned, they finally decided I had a choice, so I stayed in Wrangell to take care of the minks and since I could'nt handle them by myself, I had to kill them and take what ever money they would give me for the pelts from New York Auction. and Nieces Marjorie, Bella and Stella. and other grandchildren who he had never seen.

The concentration were not what I fell humans should have been put in and the water was unfit for humans to consume. The Japanese were not treated well from Other living in Boise and vicinitys. They were blamed for something beyond their control.

My Father left Japan when he was 14 yrs old to come to the United States and had never returned to Japan. He lived in Alaska from 1906 and was proud to live in the United States.

I also did'nt like who the Government chose in Wrangell Alaska as FBI Agents, citizens who I feel pretended to be our family's best friends, and to check on us and our mail.

Yes, I feel we should all be reimbursed for the time and humiliation we suffered. You had to live in the U.S. during World War II to know what the Japanese went through.

Jane Eyon (Yamasaki) Pike
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Seattle, Wa 98148