Misuo John Fujikawa oral history interview, part 2 of 6, September 15, 2002

Fujikawa talks more about growing up in Los Angeles, specifically about the time that he spent in the Japanese language school. In regular school, he would take an interest in sciences, such as botany and would face some discrimination throughout his time there. Next, he talks about being at the produce market working when he heard of the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the signing of the executive order 9066 that followed. He would be forced to pack up his belongings and head to Santa Anita racetrack before taking a train to Granada (Amache) Concentration Camp in Colorado. In order to escape the camps, he decided to join the Army, and would head to Fort Snelling in Minnesota to begin his Military Intelligence Service Language courses.

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2002OH0305_02_Fujikawa

http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/305-Fujikawa-John-2.m4v

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