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1945 12 4 Letter from Esther Rhoads to Fort
Esther Rhoads responds to Fort about a AFSC report that was published that was highly critical of WRA workers. She writes about the progress in opening up more than half of 30 hostels to Japanese Americans moving back to Southern California, the work…
1945 12 4 Letter from Rhoads to Morris
Rhoads writes to Morris, responding with her dismay at a report that was circulated from the Service Committee to hostel directors that was harsh or critical in tone (may have been about WRA workers or some service workers mistreating people? See…
1945 2 14 Letter from John to Kay
John tells Kay about all the people that he has visited on his way to Bay Region. (Long list of names including a talk with Howard Thurman) and suggests to Kay that she move to Chicago to live with Tomi. He tells her that he thinks he will settle in…
1945 2 26 Letter from Kay to Folks
Kay decides that she will move to Chicago and has resigned from her job in student relocation, despite being offered more pay. She consideres it her moral and ethical obligation to leave and not accept more money. She also believes that a Nisei…
1945 5 10, Letter from Homer Morris to Caleb Foote
Letter is about the WRA final decision to close the internment camps at the end of the year
1945 7 11 Letter from Tom to Kay and Folks
Tom fears that Mechi will be shipped off to war since he told off one of his supervisers. He wants the family to get an opinion of his maybe girlfriend, Fumi Yoshihashi when she visits them in Chicago. He says that if he was to ever get serious about…
1945 7 19 Letter from Tom to Kay
Tom refers to Kay's comment about soldiers losing their minds, and responds by saying that the "straight and narrow path is the only way" (I'm not sure what he means by this). He commens on Kiku and Kitows in Calexico. He mentions someone from Tule…
1945 7 2 Letter from Tom to Tomi
Tom describes his time in camp, his easy job setting up the dining tables and cleaning afterwards, and his plans to travel with 3 day off passes with Mech. He mentions someone, Galen Fisher who he went to high school with who was wounded seriously in…
1945 7 5 Letter from Tom to Kay and Tomi
Tom writes about a girl named Fumi, whos brothers are fighting in Italy and never went to college. He wants the family to get their opinion of her before he pursues anything. He mentions about someone who got pulled off from being shipped off to war.
1945 8 10 Letter from Tom to folks
Tom is happy that the war is over (the bombs have been dropped over Japan), but worries about the civilians who will lose their jobs and the mess of soliders who will be discharged. He thinks he will be discharged in 6 months.