At 9:00 we skyped with Neil Yamamoto from Hawaii. He was on the USS Missouri, a retired battleship. He had presented us a slideshow he made, which he is also talking about the Japanese American experience during WW2. Everything changed when Japan and US got into war. He also talked about how the Japanese got transferred from the states California, Washington, and Oregon to other states and sent to internment camps.
The Japanese-Americans were thought of as “untrustworthy” and “unassailable”! Japanese-Americans in Hawaii made up 40-60 percent of the workforce! Then, everything changed on December 7, 1941 with Pearl Harbor. Japanese-Americans were not thought of as morally good people UNTIL the creation of the 442nd infantry. It was an awesome presentation!
Neil is so kind and we learned a lot of things. This is amazing! Thank you so much.
By: Jenna Jamgochian, Gabriella Palmeri, and Julia Tate
May 22, 2019 at 10:17 pm
This is awesome. Do you think you guys might arrange a collective presentation of all of your interviews and photographs and Q&A in the auditorium ?
May 22, 2019 at 10:24 pm
We are actually creating an iMovie to be shared with our friends here on our blog!