{"product_id":"departures-poetry-and-prose-on-the-removal-of-bainbridge-islands-japanese-americans-after-pearl-harbor-paperback","title":"Departures: Poetry and Prose on the Removal of Bainbridge Island's Japanese Americans After Pearl Harbor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMike Dillon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe narrative of poetry and prose begins on the eve of Pearl Harbor. An old Croatian fisherman rows across Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island to light the kerosene lamps to guide the ferries in, as he does each night. Christmas lights decorate the cottages scattered around the harbor. The lights of Seattle glow to the east. A star falls \"from the wayside of infinity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe next morning, a Sunday, brings the bombing of Pearl Harbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe owners of the Bainbridge Island Review, Walt and Milly Woodward, work into the wee hours to publish a special edition. Walt Woodward reminds his neighbors, \"I am positive every Japanese family on the Island has an intense loyalty for the United States of America and stands ready to defend it.\" Up and down the West Coast, however, hatred is stirring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLittle more than two months later, President Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 authorizing the removal of people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast of the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn March 30, 1942, 227 Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island, under bayonet guard, are marched aboard the ferry Kehloken bound for Seattle and a train waiting to take them to Manzanar, a barbed-wire camp in the central California desert. Many of their island neighbors turned out to see them off. Not a few of them weep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author, using historical sources and family recollections, has crafted a poetic narrative of one of the most conspicuous injustices in American history, and explores how the healing goes on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 58\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51796129415456,"sku":"9781947021778","price":23.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6e8ff76ba80f9a2bc7615f7ef48bad2f.webp?v=1780751375","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/departures-poetry-and-prose-on-the-removal-of-bainbridge-islands-japanese-americans-after-pearl-harbor-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}