MANY WHO MOURN (editorial)

Because of a cruel war in which they have no part nor parcel, there are many heartsick people on this Island today.

Many are sad because of the dark news that, daily, is shadowing hopes for their nation's victory. Some weep for loved ones lost in battle. Others mourn for they hate, at the command of Mars, to leave families and business futures.

Still more are heavy hearted because they have been told that they must prepare to move from this Island--move inland to places they have never seen and amidst people who will not welcome them.

For this latter group, The Review has done what little it could do to keep them here, for The Review trusts them and believes they are good residents of this nation. Others, in the majority, have ruled otherwise. The Review--and those who think as it does--have lost.

But this newspaper is no less sorry for these Japanese-Americans than it is for others, also weary and worn with war's worries. Their burdens are great, perhaps greater.

The Review has confidence that Bainbridge Island's Japanese-Americans will go with the feeling that they, too, are making a mighty sacrifice for their country... the United States of America; and that, some day, they will return again to this community secure, at last, in the knowledge that they, and all other Americans, have been tested... and found true.