0:00 - Friend from Boy Scouts served as US Marines language officer in Okinawa

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Keywords: cave flushing; drafted; interpreters; Japanese civilians; Japanese language school; Japanese soldiers; military service; public school

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5:12 - Benefits of having a bi-cultural background

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Keywords: Americanism; discrimination; freedom; high school; Japan; Nisei; pre-war

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9:28 - Knowledge of pre-war events taking place in Europe

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Keywords: Adolf Hitler; European Theater; Germans; imports; Japan; oil; President Roosevelt; Winston Churchill

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11:46 - News of the bombing of Pearl Harbor / Restrictions imposed on the Japanese community

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Keywords: casualties; December 7th; Issei; radio broadcast; restricted areas; UC Berkeley; USS Arizona

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16:29 - Drafted just before Executive Order 9066 was issued

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Keywords: "assembly center"; "interned"; Issei parents; Japanese Americans; university

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18:11 - First experience in the Army -- Training camp / Discrimination towards the Black soldiers

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Keywords: basic training; California; discrimination in the military; Monterey; noncoms

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21:39 - Received Bachelor's Degree in the mail -- Signed up for Officer Candidate School (OCS)

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Keywords: Arkansas; basic training; college; education; family; Hapa; Nisei; University of Michigan

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23:55 - Basic training at Camp Robinson, Arkansas with Caucasian soldiers / Experience with racial segregation in the South

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Keywords: "Colored"; Commissioned Officer; illiterate; Jim Crow Laws; Nisei; racial discrimination; racism; Whites

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