Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence : Coming Home to Hood River.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Oral History Methodology -- Introduction -- Part I: Early Years -- 1. "Growing Up in Two Worlds" : Balancing Japanese America -- 2. "Nice People So Long as They Are in a Minority" : The Japanese American Community in Hood River -- Part II: World War II -- 3. "Why Didn't You Tell Us the War Was Coming?" : Community Fallout from Pearl Harbor -- 4. "Fighting for Good Uncle Sam" : Nisei Enter the Military -- 5. "The Two-Sided Sword" : Wartime Changes for Japanese American Families -- 6. "Getting Shot from Ahead of Us and Behind Us" : War in the South Pacific -- 7. "From Somewhere in Europe" : War in Europe -- 8. "I've Got a Lot of Fighting to Do Right Here" : Charged with Willful Disobedience -- 9. "Discard My Uniform for Good" : The End of the War -- Part III: After the War -- 10. "No Japes Wanted in Hood River" : The Hood River Situation -- 11. "Ninety Percent Are Against the Japs!" : Veterans and Their Families Return -- 12. "You Could Feel It" : Resettling in the Community and Elsewhere -- 13. "Time Is a Good Healer" : Rebuilding -- 14. "Guilty of Courage" : Discipline Barrack Boys' Appeals -- Part IV: Today -- 15. "Opening the Closets of History" : The Community Today -- 16. No "Ordinary Soldiers" : The Patriot Test -- Afterword -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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