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at her face, and all the faces. Teruko wants to be a beautician. Minoru wants to be a surveyor. Stanley wants to be an entomologist. Mitsuyo wants to be a seam~ stress. Kazuko wants to be a dietician. Hisako wams to be a stenogra~ pher. Teiko wants to study mathematics. Kazuyuki wants to be a car~ penter. Seiji wants to join the United States Army. Mariko wants to be a pharmacist. Hisashi wants to be a chef. Peter wants to be a farmer. Kamo wants to be a mechanic. Masaru wants to be a writer. Umeko wants to be a housewife. Tomi says he wants to be the ideal husband. Motoko wants to be an oculist. Minoru wants to be an actor. Miyeko wants to be a librarian. Eiji wants to be a chemical engineer. Fusaye wants to sing. Himeo wants to be the fastest runner ever. Yemiko wants to be a nurse. Rey wants to be an artist. Teruko wants to be a teacher. Okiko is looking forward to the day when she will become, as she says, a Doctor. Their faces peer at me from 1943, smiling, grinning, shy, scared, startled by the camera, their eyeglasses slightly askew, neckties neatly knotted, hair curled just so, stern, beaming, one boy wearing a rakish cap, one girl with a handkerchief meticulously folded into her blazer pocket. Hope's smile is big and confident. After each senior's name and before each senior's feats and ac~ complishments and desires and dreams and ambitions and hopes and plans there is, in parentheses, the name of the high school he or she was attending before being sent to Camp Topaz. Oakland High, Ber~ keley High, San Mateo High, Alameda, Hayward, San Leandro, San Jose, Pescadero. Hilo and Konawaena in Hawaii. Pascal High in Texas. Theodore Roosevelt High School in Fresno. George Washington High in San Francisco.
• On December 18, 1944, as Douglas MacArthur's soldiers and sail~ ors and airmen and divers and intelligence agents drove through the Pacific theater toward Manila, their hearts and fears fixed on the in~ evitable invasion ofjapan, the United States War Relocation Author~ ity announced plans to close all ten American concentration camps within six to twelve months. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Americans called the oomb Little &y and the Japanese called it the Original Child. The fireball created by the bomb was one hundred million degrees at its center and burned one hundred and thirty thousand people to death by the end of the day. On August 9 the United States dropped an atomic oomb on Nagasaki. Seventy~five thousand people burned to 80
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