Personal documents, art, propaganda, and stories express the Japanese American experience in internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Day We Left /Ben Iijima 3 -- Editorials in the Wake of Pearl Harbor 11 -- Eyewitness to Pearl Harbor / Clay H. Musick 27 -- Pearl Harbor Remembered / Kay Uno 31 -- Total Community / Ron Dellums 33 -- War Comes to the Church Door / Eleanor Breed 35 -- Can't Tell / Nellie Wong 51 -- from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou 53 -- Photo Essay: An Uncertain Future 57 -- from Desert Exile / Yoshiko Uchida 69 -- Letters from a Justice Department Camp / Isohei Hatashita 82 -- from Citizen 13660 / Mine Okubo 87 -- from Stray Clouds / Toyo Kazato 97 -- from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston 104 -- Photo Essay: How I Spent the War 108 -- A Far Country: Poems from the Arkansas Camps 119 -- from To the Stars / George Takei 121 -- A Teacher at Topaz / Eleanor Gerard Sekerak 126 -- A Young Nisei's Diary / Stanley Hayami 138 -- Recollections of Heart Mountain / Peter Simpson 142 -- Statement to the Commission / Elaine Black Yoneda 153 -- Insufficient Care / Mabel Ota 173 -- Winter Night Sentry: Poems from the Justice Department Camps 178 -- from Hawaii End of the Rainbow / Kazuo Miyamoto 180 -- Autobiography of an Italian Internee / Ezio Pinza 191 -- from Adios to Tears / Seiichi Higashide 204 -- A WRA Center Lexicon of Japanese American Terms 220 -- Yule Greetings, Friends! / Globularius Schraubi 228 -- Legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto 237 -- One Happy Family / Toshio Mori 252 -- A Thousand Stitches / Henry Sugimoto 255 -- A Challenge to American Sportsmanship / Eleanor Roosevelt 263 -- from The Betrayed / Hiroshi Kashiwagi 270 -- Campus Report / Lillian Ota 279 -- from Beyond Loyalty / Minoru Kiyota 292 -- Draft Resisters at Heart Mountain / Frank Seishi Emi 313 -- Poetic Reflections of the Tule Lake Internment Camp / Violet de Cristoforo 325 -- No Flower in Vase: Poems from Tule Lake 330 -- A Nisei Requests Repatriation 333 -- Presidential Statement / Franklin D. Roosevelt 341 -- from Journey to Washington / Daniel Inouye 343 -- Action from a Sergeant's Diary / Min Hara 348 -- One Replacement's Story / Stanley Izumigawa 363 -- Letter to Father / George Saito 374 -- from Light One Candle / Solly Ganor 377 -- What Flower Worth the Pain 388 -- Appendix A Historical Documents 400 -- Appendix C Assembly Centers and Interment Camps 418.