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Show told me why. Weall had coffee and were very apprehensive about the future. “It was a dark day, but it suddenly seemed mueh-darker—as-if-a-huge-cloud-had-comeand settled over all of us.” Gen, MAXxweLt D. TayLon, Special Military Consultant to the U.S. President, ee “In 1941 I was a major assigned to the War Department as Assistant Secretary of General Staff, Army. On Pearl Harbor Day I was at my residence in Washington. My son John, who had been listening to the radio, info ed me of the attack. Simply surfiately reported for duty to the War Department's General Staff Room.” Mrs. Fumi NAKAMURA, Counselor, Telephone and Telegraph Talrmation Service, Nippon T. & T. Corp. “It was my regular tayOff as an operator, and In the midst of a supply loft full of electronic equipment, nobody had a radio going. We only shrugged at all the formations of airplanes we saw flying up the Hudson. “When I got home late that afternoon;-mywife had a party going, and withall the gaiety, the full-impact of the ‘rumor’ didn’t sink in until some time later when Mayor La Guardia came on the air. When we learned where Pearl Harbor was, it brought the seriousness of the situation into focus.” Kurormon Onor (Orowaya), leading performer with the Kabuki Theater in Japan. “TI didn’t hear the news until I overheard conversations while I was going home in the bus. It woke me out of my drowsiness, but I felt relieved because all that war talk was beginning to become a frustration. I went into the army but not:as an actor. I feel that it was all just a big loss of time.” = Water Pinceon, actor, currently starring “My family and I rode out the long war years in Nagoya, where, although we were physically Japanese, we were regarded as the Christian Americans we had become. Consequently we were_semi-ostracized.” Z Yasuo Kavo, Editor-in-Chief, San-Kei-Prese, Okinawa, “I was home, sick in bed with tuberculosis. The family was listening to the radio as the news came in. My father commented: ‘Weare in for a bad time now!’ I was drafted into the army in 1944. I was wounded in the left leg by a howitzer-shell fragment and was captured on May 10, 1945. “] was taken by ship to Hawaii—why, I do not know. But I still remember the American inhumanity. While traveling to Hawaii, we were put into steerage. We got out for sunshine on deck “only once each day, and we were given cooked food only once a day—but it was put into our hands since we had no eating utensils. In T'was homecleaning the house. The radio, play‘ithe Broadway revival of “Dinner at Eight.”_ Hawail, things werg easier.” ~~ Nog M. RAVNEBERC, Associate, Woodwarding music, was interrupted by the news bulletin. fe ‘ “Oh, yes, it’s all as vivid af* Clyde-Sherrard, engineers_and_geologists. I felt a vague anxiety, an uncertainty for the , if it were last Sunday. My wife “The 194th Tank Battalion, future. I telephoned in to my supervisor for inour outfit, had been in the Phil| Beverly Hills home undoing the — struction and was told there was no emergency. ippines since September, 1941. wrappings of a new fur coat I Things were ‘easy—until American air beI was near Clark Field, Manila, had long promised her. Suddengan to take their toll in Tokyo sometimelai r.uf when a flight of 27 Jap bombly I was called to the telephone. Mrs. KATHLEEN COLBORN, Assistant Super ers flew in at low level and-bevisor, General Traffic Personnel, Manhattan, — A_friend-told-me he had just heard a flash on i gan to strafe us. I was scared, New York Telephone Co. aS his radio. When I went back and told my wife, but the tension of the week of blackout that pre“Having just returned from “ahe looked at me and said, ‘It takes all the joy ceded it was over. We engaged the Japanese church, we were about to sit out, of it.” briefly all over the island and finally retreated down to dinner when the news Tae Rev. youn Sexnt, President, New York to Bataan Peninsula, where we were captured in & came over the radio. It caught Buddhist Chur. the big general surrender. “A Japanesea officer stationed in Washme-in, complete-and-utter-disbe“Then came the notorious march to San Ferington, D.C),chad just passed away, and I was lief. After a few minutes the nando, during which I was fed one time in 10 at his funeral there that Suntransit in from-the-service ——days.Survivingthat,was taken to Formosa. supervisor-to-findWith a ration of less than a pound ofrice per to the crematory, another Japanese naval officer 1 was needed. I tried for half an hour, but the workday, I went down from myprevious weight caught my ear and told meofa clash in the Phillines were always busy. Finally I decided to go of 185 to a mere 85 pounds by the time I was ippines between Japanese and U.S. forces that in anyway. When I arrived, the staff greeted me liberated.in August, 1945.” day. I asked if it were seriqus, and he said that with open arms because they were so busy.” Isaac STERN, concert violinist. eeee Sumo Ito, Office Manager, Great Mutual In“My family and I were in San f strength. vestment Corp., Tokyo. “¢, for * See “My job as manI left immeFrancisco, preparing to start off on another musical tour. Our a ager for a Japanese-Filipino diately for New Yor On the Hae I learned radio was tuned to the Philhar* owned textile plant had meliving from conversation the full impact of the ‘clash,’ monic, that's how I heard it— in the country south of Manila. including Pearl Harbor. The church suddenly beincredible! War seemed so far ~ My Filipino landlord (and cuscame a place of refuge for many worried and away, not a concern for the tomer) awakened me with the confused people.” United States. Our concern seemed to be with news at 6 a.m.I felt patriotic to Samug, Hmomicur~Krramura, Deputy DiGermany rather than with Japan—then we found ae but sad at the lost business. rector, Cultural Affairs, U.S. Civil Administra- —“F-tuned-in_my radio for verification, I felt tion, Rywkyns. secure underinternationallaw-but—afraidof independent local action from the Filipino people, so I confined myself to my room. I was free within a week when the Japanese Army came to occupy the area. I went home to Tokyo.” I ——-Antuur—L. Dixon, Divisional 4 Si and New York City Board ee “I remember that day well—it was the only Sunday I ever worked. I was a procurement officer for the federal government. The whole in- —stallation was moving,-and-we needed inventory. war coming at us from the other side so sud“Like my father,Twas born” ~~ denly. It was a shock. “T had mixed feelings. America was in a war in Hawaii of Japanese parents. it had to win, yet I think everyone should search Father, a Congregational mishimself to see why one waris right and another sionary minister, was sent to waris wrong. : me Japanese islands in 1935. “y ‘organized the first serious-music group. to The morning in question, I was go overseas for the U. S. 0. We went to New in an eighth-grade class at the York, got clearance, shots, uniforms, secret orhigh school in Nagoya, The school principal ders, and then promptly returned to San Francalled all the students to assembly in the yard cisco to begin our tour of Guadaleanal, New Caland made the announcement. We were all a __edonia, Guam, etc. Later on, we got to Iceland, “hometown[Honolulu] thatwas bombed!—— “Greenland, and other overseas posts.” + Family Weekly, December 4, 1966 5 |