Tadashi Kishi

Inprisoned Without Due Process Tadashi Kishi

On the morning of December 7, 1941, my world in an instant fell apart. Suddenly a tsunami swept over the lives of all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast of America. I was citizen, draft age 1A. Surreptitiously, our Government reclassified my draft status to 4C, enemy alien that allowed our President and our elected representatives in all branches of our government to imprison me behind barbwires and watch my every move from watchtowers. I looked like the enemy and now classified as the enemy. With Justice denied, our Government forcibly moved me to a desolate and forlorn place called Manzanar, California. This is my story of a torn heart from the betrayal of my rights under the Constitution that left me reticent for many years because silence was a safe place. It is a pen that heals the wounds. The book "Imprisoned" is an extension of "Ringo-en" adding story of individuals, all US veterans that are important part of Manzanar's history: Joseph Kurihara, Sadao Munemori and Dr. Gordon Sato.