THE COLONEL AND THE PACIFIST by Klancy Clark de Nevers ( 9780874807899 )

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THE COLONEL AND THE PACIFIST
KARL BENDETSEN-PERRY SAITO AND THE INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II

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Klancy Clark de Nevers

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Paperback

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0874807891

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9780874807899

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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS,U.S.

Pub. date:

7 May, 2004

Description:

Tells the story of Japanese-American internment during World War II from the perspective of two very different people: the Army colonel in charge of the relocations and a young student who was incarcerated at Tule Lake.

Synopsis:

Executive Order 9066. In February 1942, ten weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt put his signature to a piece of paper that allowed the forced removal of Americans of Japanese ancestry from their West Coast homes, and their incarceration in makeshift camps. Those are the facts. But two faces emerge from behind these facts: Karl R. Bendetsen, the Army major who was promoted to full colonel and placed in charge of the evacuation after formulating the concept of 'military necessity, ' and who penned the order Roosevelt signed, and Perry H. Saito, a young college student, future Methodist minister, and former neighbor from Bendetsen's hometown of Aberdeen, Washington who was incarcerated in Tule Lake Relocation Camp.The Colonel and the Pacifist tells the story of two men caught up in one of the most infamous episodes in American history. While they never met, Bendetsen and Saito's lives touched tangentially--from their common hometown to their eventual testimony during the 1981 hearings of the Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. In weaving together these contrasting stories, Klancy Clark de Nevers not only exposes unknown or little known aspects of World War II history, she also explores larger issues of racism and war that resonate through the years and ring eerily familiar to our post-9/11 ears.

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University of Utah Press,U.S.

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