The Two Terrors of Tulelake

<p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>The Two Terrors of Tulelake </em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Executive Order 9066 on February 19 1942 forced 120000 American citizens into 'relocation centers'. The only crime they were guilty of was their ancestry. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ichiro Hisakawa and his family were thrown into a prison camp behind barbed wire and guard towers. They had to endure filthy sanitation deplorable housing poor medical services inadequate education for the children and a lack of respect for them as American citizens. Ichiro and his family endured hot dry summers bitterly cold windy winters a typhus epidemic riots and hate from inside and outside the prison.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Outside the barbed wire fences a local militia hated the internees. Inside those fences many of the American soldiers responsible for guarding the Japanese Americans hated them. Inside the camp a radical group of internees called </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Watashitachiha Chusetsudesu and l</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>oyal to Japan hated everyone. The camp became a powder keg with a slow-burning fuse but no one was prepared for betrayal murder and escape.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ichiro eventually found strength in a partnership with Bobby King. Two family sagas that forged their resilient bond that made each stronger - strong enough to work together to deal with the unexpected end of that bond. But how did Bobby King a sixteen-year-old from 2017 find himself in 1942? </span></p><p><br></p>