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277 items

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Joe Yamakido Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-167-2)
Working as a truck driver while attending high school

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-166-19)
Thoughts the aftermath of September 11, 2001: "we just hope that history doesn't repeat itself"


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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-166-13)
Little awareness of changing racial climate during the 1960s

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-166-16)
Impact of the incarceration experience: "a sense of betrayal, anger"

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-166-5)
As a child, having only vague memories of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and mass removal to Pinedale Assembly Center

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-166-3)
Early memories of Kent, Washington

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-166-12)
Memories of dental school at University of Illinois

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-166-7)
After leaving camp, resettling in West Chicago: being the only Japanese Americans in neighborhood

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-166-10)
Attending college, deciding to go into dentistry

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-166-21)
Reading of a letter written by father reflecting on events in his life

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-166-8)
Being the only Japanese American in school in West Chicago

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-166-11)
Thoughts on racial identity during college years

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-166-14)
Starting up a dental practice in West Chicago

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-166-17)
Thoughts on the redress movement: thankful for the apology

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-166-6)
Age seven in camps, memories of playing with friends and attending school in Tule Lake, California, and Minidoka, Idaho

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-166-20)
Discussion about depictions of Japanese Americans in movies and books

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-166-2)
Family background: mother an older Nisei

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-166-1)
Family background: parents settled in Tacoma, Washington

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-166-15)
Getting married and raising a family

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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-166-9)
Parents' values: importance of education, religion

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Kenge Kobayashi Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-37-10)
Atmosphere at Tule Lake concentration camp during the "segregation" period
