Manzanar is a dusty, dirty, windy desert setting with extreme weather conditions. As their bus pulled in, “The bus was being pelted by what sounded like splattering rain.”, but in fact, it was blowing sand driven by the March winds. I cannot imagine the emotions that must have been going through the people’s minds as they were driven through the gates, past the barbed-wire fencing, so many people, worried and fearful. Thankfully, a child’s naivety and innocence takes over and as they come to a stop Jeanne yells out “Hey! This whole bus is full of Wakatsukis!” the tension is broken by the following laughter.

Even that first day at Manzanar it was obvious there would be problems, fruit over rice? What an outrage, yet fear and

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