| Title |
Kenneth Nodzu, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, May 23, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 234 |
| Alternative Title |
Kenneth K. Nodzu, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Nodzu, Kenneth K., 1927- |
| Contributor |
Kelly, Luke; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-05-23 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Philippines; Orem, Utah County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Nodzu, Kenneth, 1927- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Post office; JACL |
| Description |
Transcript (25 pages) of an interview by Luke Kelly with Kenneth K. Nodzu on May 23, 2001. This is from tape number 234 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Kenneth Nodzu was born in Kenilworth, Utah, in 1927. He was drafted into the Army in 1945, and served in Minnesota, California, and the Philippines as a supply clerk. He also discusses his work with the Japanese American Citizen's League of Mt. Olympus. 25 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
25 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s65t5jrq |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Japanese Americans |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025254 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65t5jrq |
| Title |
Page 5 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025230 |
| OCR Text |
Show Kenneth Nodzu May 2 2001 school one year. Then moved to Orem and completed high school there in 1945. LUK: Okay. Did you enjoy high school or have any favorite subjects? KEN: Well, not particularly. I enjoyed my schooling in Spring Canyon because I knew all the kids and all that. But in high school it was quite a bit larger, and I didn't get to know the kids very well because, I guess, I went only two years. That's about it about schooling. L UK: When the war broke out in 1941 did your father remain in his job as a miner? You said you moved first to Orem? KEN: No, right after the war started-do you want me to relate just some of the things? When the war started we didn't have a radio or anything. But our neighbor several houses up the canyon had a radio. And he came down-and he was a friend of my dad' s-and he broke the news to us. And we were all subdued because we kind of thought something like that might happen, you know, throughout the weeks. And then I guess I was fourteen at the time, so I didn't grasp all the significance of the event but, anyway, Dad got all of us kids together. By that time there were eight children in the family. I was second oldest. And he says, "We're Americans, so we should be loyal to America and do whatever the government says of us." And we went back to school the next week. And the kids were kind of distant from then on. Anyway, Dad and all the Japanese were fired; laid off from their jobs. But they allowed us to finish school and then we were supposed to find some place to move to because we were living in a company housing, and they said that we had to fmd a place to 2 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65t5jrq/1025230 |
