{"id":14401,"date":"2017-02-19T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/?p=14401"},"modified":"2018-02-19T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:48:17","slug":"never-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/never-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14402\" style=\"width: 682px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload_inited wp-image-14402 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Instructions-to-All-Persons-of-Japanese-Ancestry.jpg\" width=\"682\" height=\"872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Instructions-to-All-Persons-of-Japanese-Ancestry.jpg 682w, https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Instructions-to-All-Persons-of-Japanese-Ancestry-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Instructions-to-All-Persons-of-Japanese-Ancestry-469x600.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Descent, from the National Park Service&#8217;s Collection of Historical Documents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 1940, my grandma was a 21-year old maid in Los Angeles. She worked for a family the Jefferson Park neighborhood and her name is listed with theirs in the Census. By the time <\/span><span class=\"s1\">President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, forcing those of Japanese descent into internment camps, she was married to my grandfather.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Under Executive Order 9066 issued 75 years ago today, more than 120,000 people were summarily rounded up and incarcerated following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The crime? Looking like the enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Until recently, it was hard to imagine it could ever happen again. Uprooted from your life with just days to gather your belongings and get your affairs in order. Students pulled out of schools, families losing businesses and farms along with their dignity, simply for being of Japanese descent. My grandparents, both American citizens, reported to the Santa Anita racetrack and were later shipped off to <a href=\"http:\/\/encyclopedia.densho.org\/Jerome\/\">Jerome in Arkansas<\/a>, two people among more than 120,000 whose rights were violated and their lives fundamentally altered. Because of an Executive Order, a Supreme Court and Congress who did nothing to stop it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My grandma\u2019s influence is all over this blog. I sat at her table almost daily from elementary school until I left for college. On that table, there were more American dishes than truly Japanese ones, though there was always shoyu and rice to go with whatever we were eating \u2014 whether it was chili or porcupine meatballs (gross!) or chicken and dumplings. Today I look back and wonder if in a bid to prove our American-ness, some of the Japanese food took a backseat. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I sat on her kitchen floor, under a pull-out cutting board and played grocery store, pulling cans from her cupboard and scanning them through an imaginary cash register. Campbell\u2019s soup cans on the top left, tomatoes of all sorts on the top right, next to the Crisco. And in that cupboard, were cans of\u00a0deviled ham and corned beef hash. In the fridge, Oscar Meyer hot dogs and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/2014\/03\/02\/grandmas-bacon-fried-rice\/\">bacon for fried rice<\/a>. Recipes that are lists of ingredients, but everything is negotiable, add whatever you have, including ketchup. I never gave much thought to the fact that some of those foodways\u00a0were born of the camp experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Today is a #DayofRemembrance, not just broadly for the injustices done in 1942, but also personally for my grandparents who were put in an untenable situation, who made the best of it because what else could you do? And after everything, they made it back to California and raised four kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The scars of internment are more subtle now, honed down over the generations, yet I\u2019ve found myself saying things like, \u201cOh, even my grandmother was born here, so we\u2019re really American.\u201d As we\u2019ve seen citizens protesting and the 9th Circuit Court put a hold on a Muslim ban, I know this time will be different. It has to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">********************<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Resources on the Japanese-American Internment:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janm.org\">Japanese American National Museum<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.densho.org\/\">Densho: the Japanese-American Legacy Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2lXNqou\">Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2kWLaK1\">Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2007\/12\/20\/17335538\/weenie-royale-food-and-the-japanese-internment\">Weenie Royale: Food and the Japanese-American Internment<\/a><\/p><!-- Start GADSWPV-3.6 --><center><div id=\"ga_29466488\"> <\/div><div style=\"text-align:right; width:300px; padding:5px 0;\">\r\n   <img class=\"lazyload_inited\" src=\"https:\/\/bcdn.grmtas.com\/images\/gourmetads-logo.jpg\" alt=\"logo\" style=\"float:right; border:none;\" \/>\r\n   <div style=\"width:auto; padding:4px 5px 0 0; float:right; display:inline-block; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#333;\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gourmetads.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Food Advertisements\" style=\"text-decoration:none; color:#333;\">Food Advertisements<\/a> by\r\n   <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/center><!-- End GADSWPV-3.6 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1940, my grandma was a 21-year old maid in Los Angeles. 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