Topaz Oral History Project research files: Correspondence (1984-1993)

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0 1 84 12 De&' D . Ta, or: la:tlk )"'U for allowing me the opportunity of seeing your mat"! us<:.-ri p t before ublication. Before I figut'ed out quite wba.t the form of the pt"esent-ti~r wc!U I ... v:.r t a little timet ea.ding tl1e first chapter . .Absolutely fascinating I Moch of 1l1at information has come to me t> y llenging around t11e grovn ups 1:t11o p._ "'~ed n·.r.rough o house and :imi>lv by being a. bystandet' ot' relU(:tant parti<:ipant of some of the tater events t-. Jt i . : Jr ~ !" el t~= ., :· _la.v"B it set -down in :>ucli clear form. just a. few comments before 1 get do'Wtl to the task which you gave me. On I>age 2 of Chapter 1 you u..~ the word Ot'ie:r: tals without a.ny emphasis to denote the <:hfttlges :n usage of that WOt"d sin(e that time. H is loLded with t.he same baggage as the vord 1 egro. On I>age 3 also of Chapter 1 you mention WJ"'ious Protesta.11t (:;hurches without mentioning t.he vorl=: of t.he Protestant Epis(;opal Cln:tt'"ch. It the EpiSif.Jf~al Cllt -::11., ma.y $tlli maintairl the same missionary bies nov as it did then but it did start work in 111e Japanese <;ommunity t>efore tt.&.:. tw'n ot the c.-entu.ry albeit r.iC~ quite as soon e.s t.he Methodists or Presbytet'"ia.ns. We were waiting fot" the Pullman! _-y notes onl v ;;ay page 36. This -cw'a$ tl1e (:hapter des~ri bing life in TCJl>82. There was mentlon made of Antelope Springs an<J a. bit tater that no one tried to escape. lvly boyha:u-.Jd memory COtl1ures up the name Ko20 Fukaga.i who the kids all understood r.rie<l to escape! Trur.h m.a:t te T.ha.t he "Ylaildered awa.y from a recrea.rJonalouting or I car1 ree that ir1an offk:ial report. On page 33 Chapter 7, q( 2 .. line 2 my wife's friend Chiz I Iyama se.·r~ she oru y gave her <Ja.ugl'ner ·an Am.ericarJ. name ... This pl· r-ase is again without any emphasis an<1 it fF-d!""lld.y makes my ha.ir stand on end. In the l;."'ntext in which 1t is used it is un1erstat11a.ble ·s sad es it ma.yt_ .. Howvet", shouldn't something be said romewhere poii1ting out t.ha.t names su<;h as Chizuko, Ha.!'·uo (aka.Har:ry) are as 'American" as Alice a11d susar1 and Harry an J Donald'? Tiley ma.y not be Anglo or Christlar1 names but t.hey are the names of .Amer1cans and by extension American names. As 81"! interesting aside, adult t:-~tisims in my Churcl1 are performed using t.he individualg g1-r..ren name :regardless of origin. s to t.he irJ.Statlf..;es where you <:ite the interview with unt Fa.itll .. ie, Chapter 4- foot.note 74, page 37, q[21a.st ~.entenc.-e and Cha.pter 7, foot.note 43, page 33, q[lline 7 .. I rem em. bet' her telling of men tal illness but t11e latter is only a Y&gue memory.