May 7, 1942 entry Item Info
May 7th (Wednesday)
Report regarding mailing was announced this afternoon. Letters can be written on both sides of paper with a 1.2-inch margin up to 2,000 characters. Write “Internee’s Mail” on the upper left corner of the envelope and “Free” in the section for stamps. Write the sender’s full name, add the internee’s special number, and the camp number below that.
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As for postcards, it is the same with letters, and we are required to write our number and full name at the end. We should do the same at the end of the main text of letters. When someone else writes a letter on behalf of another person, the writer needs to sign below the sender’s name. The maximum number of correspondence is two letters and one postcard (per week), and the rules prohibit correspondence from an internee to another unless addressed to family members.
Those rules that prohibit correspondence to anyone but family members unable people like me who do not have family to correspond with anyone with requests or anything. All of my friends that I count on to assist me ended up being interned upon the forced removal order. I became a lone-standing prisoner stripped of any possible means to reach out. It is unknown to me if Independence where my power of attorney holder Mr. Kimimoto lives, and I feel a bit worried about what type of procedure was taking place in the main office of the company. However, it is wartime. There is no use worrying about it.
I got up and had breakfast this morning, but I still have some gas in the system, and it is painful .
Performance hosted by the Northwest group was held in the fourth mess hall at 7 pm. The group hosted it, but no one from the Northwest region was on the stage. It was well attended with performers only from California and Hawaii, and the seats in the entire place were filled without empty spots.
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I heard a part of someone’s poetry singing and a bit of an obscene song from outside, left the place and crawled into the bed. Everyone was impressed by the performance.
It was reported that listening to radio is far from being permitted at this point.
- Title:
- May 7, 1942 entry
- Creator:
- Sakaino, Bunro
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1942-05-07
- Description:
- May 7, 1942, diary entry written by Bunro Sakaino while he was incarcerated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
- Subjects:
- concentration camps diaries
- Location:
- Fort Sill, OK
- Source:
- MG 387, George Shihei Shitamae papers, Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library
- Translator:
- transcribed and translated by Naoko Tanabe, 2024-25, from Denso densho.org
- Source Identifier:
- mg387_1_7-1942-05-07
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Language:
- jpn
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