The Issei,
or first generation, is considerably weakened in their loyalty
to Japan by the fact that they have chosen to make this their
home and have brought up their children here. They expect to die
here. They are quite fearful of being put in a concentration camp.
Many would take out American citizenship if allowed to do so.
The haste of this report does not allow us to go into this more
fully. The Issei have to break with their religion, their god
and Emperor, their family, their ancestors and their after-life
in order to be loyal to the United States. They are also still
legally Japanese. Yet they do break, and send their boys off to
the Army with pride and tears. They are good neighbors. They are
old men fifty-five to sixty-five, for the most part simple and
dignified. Roughly they were Japanese lower middle class, about
analogous to the pilgrim fathers.
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