Minidoka Irrigator Extra, Jan. 29, 1943

The first page. Note that it says that the military will admit Nisei, yet it was the military that first kicked out all the Nisei that were already joined. It's also a segregated unit, just like the Tuskegee Airmen unit (which also went on to establish an incredible record of performance.) Many of the Nisei wanted to fight right alongside the white soldiers (the blacks in the military of the time generally being confined to fairly menial positions other than the group noted above), yet they were denied that.

All this was expected of them while their families were to remain in the internment camps.

The articles continue on this second page. The segregation thinking eventually became the Tule Lake segregation center, where those who were considered disloyal, for one reason or another, were concentrated, while those who were considered loyal were moved to other camps.

Note also the Japanese portion at the bottom of the page. Sometimes in two page editions this procedure was used; sometimes the first page was in English, and the entire second page in Japanese. It just varied.

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