The Colonel and The Pacifist
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The Colonel and the Pacifist tells the story of two men caught up in one of the most infamous episodes in American history. While they never met, Bendetsen and Saito’s lives touched tangentially—from their common hometown to their eventual testimony during the 1981 hearings of the Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. In weaving together these contrasting stories, Klancy Clark de Nevers not only exposes unknown or little known aspects of World War II history, she also explores larger issues of racism and war that resonate through the years and ring eerily familiar to our post-9/11 ears.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
INTRODUCTION One Man Makes a Difference
PART 1 HOMETOWN
One 1981: Revisionism or Redress?
Two Birds of Passage
Three Karl R. Bendetsen:
From Hometown to Nation’s Capital
PART II THE JAPANESE QUESTION
Four Specters of Fear
Five Tightening the Noose
Six Taking Full Charge
PART III INCARCERATION
Seven A Painful Time
Eight Tule Lake, June 1942
Nine Loyalty Crisis
Ten Sincere Conscientious Objectors to War
PART IV THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE
Eleven “A Little Hitler”
Twelve Stories Told in the 1970s
Thirteen Legacy of History
EPILOGUE My Quest
APPENDICES
A Executive Order 9066
B Copy of Classification questionnaire for statement of military qualifications for Karl R. Bendetsen, 7/5/42
C Bendetson Family Tree Saito Family Tree
D Map of Washington and Grays Harbor
E Map of United States Showing WRA relocation centers
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author