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Stanley Hayami, Nisei Son: His Diary, Letters, and Story from an American Concentration Camp to Battlefield, 1942-1945
Contributor(s): Hayami, Stanley (Author), Inouye, Daniel (Foreword by), Oppenheim, Joanne (Annotations by)
ISBN: 1883283671     ISBN-13: 9781883283674
Publisher: Brick Tower Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2008
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Annotation: Stanley Hayami was sixteen when he was sent to Heart Mountain, an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. He kept a diary of his life in the camps, augmented with sketches and drawings. In 1944, like many young Nisei men, he was drafted into the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team, an all-Nisei unit, continuing to write and earning a Bronze Star. He never lost his faith in America, and remained defiantly patriotic to the last. He was killed in combat in Northern Italy on April 23rd, 1945, while trying to help a fellow soldier. He was nineteen years old. This book is based on his diary, now in the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, Ca.
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | Military - World War Ii
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Asian & Asian American
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 8.52" W x 10.88" (1.21 lbs) 204 pages
 
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The Japanese government attacked the US Pacific fleet in Hawaii on 7 December 1941. On the following day the US declared war on Japan and for those of Japanese decent, most of whom were American Citizens, life would never be the same. This book focuses on a dark time in our history.