Still working…
Still working on the book and various other projects, trying to fit everything into my very busy life, and trying to still have some time for life itself. So, although progress is slower than I would like, it goes well. I also have some other surprises planned, and am working on them, too. I will be away for a bit on an annual trip I make with my mom and her friends (my play aunts and uncles), with whom she was interned by the US government during World War II. I admire so very much their courage, faith, endurance, patience, ethics and strength to have endured what they all went through during that time. My dad and many others were part of the 442nd Infantry Regiment.
Following is an excerpt from Wikipedia on this subject: Most Japanese Americans who fought in WWII were Nisei, Japanese Americans born in the U.S. Nevertheless, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Japanese American men were categorized as 4C (enemy alien) and therefore non-draftable. On 19 February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing military authorities “to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded, and with respect to which, the right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave shall be subject to whatever restrictions the Secretary of War or the appropriate Military Commander may impose in his discretion.” Although the order did not refer specifically to people of Japanese ancestry, it set the stage for the internment of people of Japanese descent. In March 1942, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Command, issued the first of 108 military proclamations that resulted in the forced removal of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast from their homes and placed in guarded concentration camps behind barbed wire, or (as the government euphemistically referred to them) relocation camps.