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There are even more embarrassing footnotes. After Pfc. Sadao Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the citation of her son's heroism reached Mrs. Munemori behind the barbed wire of a relocation center at Manzanar, Calif. The American Legion canceled the charters of all Japanese American posts. In California in 1942, State Attorney General Earl Warren, campaigning for Governor, urged voters to keep Japanese out of California "so long as the flag of Nippon is flying over the Philippines...
...mother was home in Long Beach, Calif., last week, after four years in a relocation camp in Manzanar. As a native-born Japanese, the mother of Hero Munemori is not, and can never be, a U.S. citizen. Under California statutes, she can never own a home on California soil...
...following letter is from a Nisei, who was evacuated from Los Angeles, and is now at the Owens Valley Reception Center, Manzanar, Calif. for Nisei and Japanese aliens...
...Manzanar, Calif...
...very interesting account of "Moving Day for Mr. Nisei" (TIME, April 6), stated in part: "Thus, last week, the first compulsory migration in U.S. history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley." I recalled a historical marker that I photographed near Pea Ridge Battlefield some years ago. Apparently Mr. Nisei was not the first...