The meals I consume at the internment camp are horrible! The portions are minute and the food barely edible. The macaroni and cheese I sampled today tasted like burnt noodles. Some of the boys, around my age or seventeen, moved from one dining hall on the camp to another, in order to obtain enough to eat. Oh how I miss my mother’s cooking! My older brother, Akio was assigned to work in the kitchen and the kitchen has few resources to feed thousands of people.
My mother has little time or resources to cook at this camp. She was assigned a job as a nurse’s aide at the hospital on the camp, while I was allocated the job of an office clerk in an official’s barrack on the camp. Fortunately, my job is only part time, but my mother’s is full time. She earns $11 a month for her work as a nurse’s aide, while unfortunately the Caucasian nurse’s aides on the camp earn $80 a month! With my mother working full-time, I will be responsible for the garden she yearns to create behind our barrack, to serve as a supplemental food source. We brought peas, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrot, and watermelon seeds to plant in the garden in the spring. My younger brother, Hideo is attending elementary school on the camp. Hideo has a young Caucasian teacher and the classroom has no…show more content… General George Marshall approved the creation of an all-Japanese combat unit. Some Japanese internees formed a group called the Fair Play Committee, which advocated for civil disobedience. Members of this group refused to report to the physicals before the draft and sign any of the documentation, which required them to serve in the armed forces. In total, there were sixty-three members of this group and right now they are facing charges in the Cheyenne Federal Court for evading the draft. Government officials on the camp predict the Fair Play Committee will be found guilty and sentenced to three or four years in
