Issue 140

Summer & Fall 2011

Nonfiction Yosh Golden Nonfiction Yosh Golden

Tales from the Willow Tree

June 1944: Desert Birth

My father, Yoshizo Yoshimura, born in Salt Lake City, was twenty-six at the time of my birth. My mother, Sachie, twenty-three, was born in Portland, Oregon. Both were American citizens, Japanese Americans—now confined to a camp in the California desert, Manzanar Relocation Center, surrounded by barbed wire and machine-gun turrets.

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