For a man raised in Japan, there was no greater disgrace. Not because of the physical hardships: he had been through worse times on fishing trips down the coast of Mexico. Few men who spent time there will talk about it more than that. Papa never said more than three or four sentences about his nine months at Fort Lincoln. The following is an excerpt from the book Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Jeanne, the youngest of 10 children, was interned with her family in Manzanar, a bleak, barren camp of tar paper shacks in California's Owen Valley desert. Several months later, his family learned he was imprisoned in a federal prison in Fort Lincoln, N.D. Author Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was 7 years old when her father, a fisherman in Ocean Park, Calif., was taken away without explanation by the FBI immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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