Toward Night's End
“April 1, 1942 Waiting near the door of Barracks #5, Lieutenant Donald Bollgen felt the stares of several Japanese-Americans gathered just outside the door. Much like a family might gather on their porch after dinner. Except there was no porch. No deck. No chairs. Just three wooden steps leading up to the barracks door. So, the group, three men and two women, squatted near the steps, talking quietly among themselves. Of course, they spoke in Japanese, so he didn’t know what they were saying. He... was sure they were talking about him. Why was an Army lieutenant here to see Mrs. Kobata? He imagined there must be great speculation about that.
Little did he know that these people, housed with the Kobata family, knew only too well what was going on. And they didn’t like the attention brought on their barracks by the missing son’s presumed misdeeds. They felt it painted them all with a tainted brush. It was due to people like her son that they were all rounded up like criminals and placed in this desolate camp.MoreLess
Little did he know that these people, housed with the Kobata family, knew only too well what was going on. And they didn’t like the attention brought on their barracks by the missing son’s presumed misdeeds. They felt it painted them all with a tainted brush. It was due to people like her son that they were all rounded up like criminals and placed in this desolate camp.MoreLess
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