The Bainbridge Review

Over 120,000 Japanese American residents of Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and California are forcibly moved from their homes. The camp is surrounded by guard towers and lined with barbed wire, but the building has yet to be completed. Paul remembers waking up on his uncomfortable straw filled mattress set atop a cheap cut and being covered in sand that had blown up through the unfinished floorboards. Entire families are packed into small one room bunks with inadequate heating, no privacy.