Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0295997060 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Linda Tamura is professor of education at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She is the author of The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley.
This book also includes the little known story of local Nisei veterans who spent 40 years appealing their convictions for insubordination.Watch the book trailer: http: //youtube/watch?v=hHMcFdmixLk. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had
Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence Excellent read.I am an Oregon resident, and my parents were both WW II vets, so I heard a lot about the internment of the Issei/Nisei generation's imprisonment (What else can one call it?) during the war. (My father's best childhood friend, and a dear friend in his adult life, was one of those individual. Margaret C. Jacob said Excellent Research on part of the earlier history of Hood River .. As a resident growing up and having as classmates several Japanese Americans including Joan Yasui Emerson, I can concur with the previous reviewers that this is a very thorough, well researched and detailed history of what happened back about the time some of us were just entering this world!!!! I counte. Being from Hood River, I am ashamed of the Amazon Customer Being from Hood River, I am ashamed of the way these courageous soldiers were treated. I was not born until the early 50's but, I would hope that I had enough courage to stand up for these war hero's when they came back to their home town. I knew a lot of these men later in life and each and every one of
The author offers a persuasive and compelling account of the treatment of Japanese Americans in peace and wartime.--William G. Robbins, "Oregon Historical Quarterly", Summer 2013"Professor Linda Tamura, author of "Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River" explains the national notoriety which Hood River, Oregon received after WWII, and how and why she broke the code of silence surrounding the situation." -"KBOO Community Radio""Tamura's "Nisei Soldiers" is an interesting, solidly researched, and well-written piece of history, one that fills a gap in the literature on the American war experience." -Thomas Saylor, "Oral History Review""Linda Tamura's revelatory community history, "Nisei Soldiers," exposes th