"Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry living in following areas: Anacortes and Bellingham, San Juan and San Piedro and a lot of other places in the Skagit Valley. At any rate, it told the Japanese they had to leave by noon on March 29. They were to be evacuated by the Fourth Army." (p.109)
"The train stopped at a place called Mojave in the middle of an
interminable, still desert. They were herded onto buses at eight-thirty in the morning,
and the buses took them north over dusty roads for four hours to a place called
Manzanar.'' (p.192)
''The camp was only half - finished; there were not enough barracks to go around. Some people, on arriving, had to build their own in oder to have a place to sleep.'' (p.194)
''The barracks all looked the same." (p.194)
''She'd
dozed and awakened in time to see the barbed wire and the rows of dark barracks blurred by
blowing dust.'' (p.192)
"Even with the
heater she shivered beneath her blankets, still fully dressed in her clothes." (p.
192)
"That night dust and yellow sand blew through the knotholes in the walls and floor. By morning their blankets were covered with it. Fujiko's pillow lay white where her head had been, but around it a layer of fine yellow grains had gathered. She felt it against her face and in her hair and on the inside of her mouth, too. It had been a cold night." ( p. 193 )
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