Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River

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3 3 7 # 100th Infantry Battalion, 57, 90–92, 94, 97, 101, 128–29, 145, 251, 272. See also 442nd Regimental Combat Team 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 55–58, 60–61, 91–92, 94: casualties, 93, 98, 102–3, 111, 145, 225; commendations for, 99, 102, 126–28, 170, 251, 266–67; discrimination against, 129, 145, 170, 251; major battles, 97–103, 145 A Akiyama, George, ix, xiii, 6, 8, 13, 16, 21, 34–36, 48, 51, 63, 93, 123, 180, 182, 205–6, 245, 251, 256, 260, 260, 261–62, 267–68; discrimination against, xvi–xviii, 49, 62–63, 129–30, 138, 143, 164–65, 167, 181, 255; family, wartime incarceration of, 63–64, 66–67, 69, 71–72; honors earned, 155, 255; postwar experience of, xvi–xviii, 164-65, 167, 181, 187, 191; wartime experience of, 49–50, 57, 61, 89–90, 94–101, 103, 122, 129–30, 183, 185, 191 Akiyama, Henry, 67, 69 Akiyama, Kiyoko, 36, 63, 66 Akiyama, Ruth, 233 Akiyama, Saburo “Sab,” 12, 16, 33–34, 187, 235, 237, 257, 262: discrimination against, 40, 164, 176, 181, 184, 192, 250–51, 259; wartime incarceration of, 63, 67, 72–73 Akiyama, Tomeseichi, 36, 63, 71 Alien Land Law (Oregon, 1923), 24, 27, 139, 142 Alien Land Law (Oregon, 1945), 158, 186, 194–95 Alijoki, Mildred, 171 American Legion, 153–54, 156, 199; exclusionist efforts of, 27, 43–44, 139–40, 147. See also American Legion Post No. 22 Index 3 3 8  I n d e x American Legion Post No. 22, 240: exclusionist efforts of, 22, 140–43, 147, 149–52, 157, 160–62, 168, 171, 174–77, 189, 258; memorial defacement by, ix–x, xvii, xix, 137–38, 142–49, 153, 155–56, 167, 169, 178, 191, 198–99, 234, 255, 266, 270, 302n46; reconciliation efforts by, 197–99, 207, 239, 248, 255–57, 270–72 Annala, Vienna, 52, 67, 284n13 Ano, Masaharu, 76, 88 Anti–Alien Association (Hood River), 25–26, 141 Aoyama, Chik, 70 Apple Growers Association (Hood River), 22, 24, 44, 138, 166, 203 Arnold, Gale, 246 Asai, Bessie Watanabe, xx, 180 Asai, Masaaki, ix, 143 Asai, Minoru “Min,” 64, 73, 163, 166, 170, 177, 195, 260 Asai, Taro “Tot,” ix, 51, 75, 138, 143, 168, 197–98 Asbury Methodist Church (Hood River), 148, 168, 176, 195, 195, 204 Aycock, William, 113–14, 116–20, 212–13, 216–17, 221, 312–13n10 B Baldwin, Decatur, 172 Ball, Hugh, 43, 73, 156, 194 Ballinger, Jesse, 113–14, 116–19, 312–13n10 Biddle, Francis, 44, 46 Blowers, L. N., 26–27 bowling, 196–97, 204 Brown, Rev. James, 180 Burgoyne, Doris, 168, 176, 180 Burgoyne, Rev. W. Sherman, 148–49, 151, 168, 169, 174, 176, 191, 195, 201, 249 Butzin, Don, 146 Butzin, Kenneth, 146 C Camp Savage, 54–55, 77–78 Cavalry Replacement Training Center (CRTC), 105–6, 109–10 Central Gorge Master Gardener Association , 241 Chamber of Commerce, Hood River, 44, 141, 188 Chiasson, Lloyd, 42 Civil Liberties Act, 206 “Civil Liberties in a Time of War: A Dialogue” (forum), 241–42 Clark, Mark W., 99, 102, 195, 252, 266, 272 Collins, Arthur, 203 Collins, Bud, 198, 240, 248, 270, 272 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), 206, 220–21, 223 D Dahlquist, John E., 98, 128–29 Daniels, Roger, 38, 68, 221–22 Davey, Frank, 25 Day of Remembrance, 243–47, 258, 264, 269 “DB boys” (discipline barrack boys), 121, 211–12, 216, 219, 221, 223, 225–27, 262, 264–65. See also Hayakawa , Kenjiro; Sumoge, Fred Dee, Oregon, 6, 8–9, 19, 28, 33, 44, 155, 196 I n d e x 3 3 9 Devers, Jacob L., 89–99, 266 DeWitt, John L., 45–46, 53, 56, 64 Doroski, Keith, 248, 255, 257 Durland, Forrest, 180 Durland, W. B., 180 Dusenberry, Verne, 195 E Edington, Jess, 140, 143, 153–54, 171 Eisenberg, Ellen, 45 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 89, 93, 123–24, 124, 128, 211, 218 Elliott, Roy, 270 Ellsworth, Ruth, 239 Emerson, Joan Yasui. 207, 236, 244, 244–46, 264, 269 Endo, Mitsuye, 225 Endow, Sho, x, 21, 92: discrimination against, 37, 127, 166, 173, 184, 186; military experience of, 48, 56, 66, 92, 95, 97, 127, 143; postwar experience of, 166, 173, 182–84, 186, 197–98 Endow, Tei, 21, 22 evacuation. See incarceration, wartime Executive Order 9066 (1942), xvii, 45–46, 62–63, 77, 105: commemoration of, 244, 257; revocation...