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Undated, Handwritten letter from Leah Tokunaga, mentions that "Chieko Yamada married Tomate Sakai (Asako's older brother)"
Asako says (in Jan 2014) that she wasn't invited to her older brother's (Tomotsu/ "Tomate") wedding in Topaz. It was private. Leah Tokunaga writes to Kay "What a surprise."
1942, discarded writing
Kay found a discarded piece of writing in the trash at Tanforan, images/ vignettes of life there
1942 8 18, Letter from Kay to Mr. and Mrs. Morris. Kay discusses a Bulletin No. 30 Application for release, disillusionment with government
Kay shares the rumors about Tule Lake becoming completely run by the military, and current evacuees being moved out. She also thinks that the Bulletin, Application for Leave is a front/ deception to make it appear as though the evacuees are not help…
1942 8 28, Letter from Kay to Miss Kirven, Kay tried to circulate a survey but the military administration is clamping down
Personal update and also update about a survey that Miss Kirven gave to Kay to distribute and collect.
1942 9 7, Letter from Kay to Caleb Foote, describes customary contriband search of 20 men
On the closing of Tanforan, and a party put on by the administration, the army still had to perform a contriband inspection with twenty men before each room. They were so ashamed about doing the search on the last few days, that they barely looked at…
1942 9 Letter from Kay to Frida
Kay explains that Frida should make sure that others who see the letter she wrote understand that she doesn't think that Japanese Americans are not the only ones to suffer, but she refutes the claim that evacuation was based on military necessity and…
1942 9 7 Letter from Kay to Syl and Goth
Kay writes "Life must be superficially normal out there too (that expression "out there" seems odd but, that's the way we've begun to think of the place beyond this Camp -- it's just somewhere absolutely apart from us-- we're just a world apart) She…