“Whenever I’m asked what camp I was in, people most often comment, ‘Tule Lake! That’s where the trou

"Since you frequent Vegas often, try the following places which serves 'Hawaiian-style' food. My Sacramento friend told me about Island Flavor, which he rated as 'licking good.' It's located west on I-215, exit on Durango. Reasonable prices for Vegas.
"Wonder if you ever read 'A Boy from Heart Mountain.' The author was supposedly eight years old at the time. It is well written, very informative and illustrations are outstanding. When I try to recall things cheap hotels birmingham in 'camp' cheap hotels birmingham I only remember the fun things like playing and having meals with friends. Our parents sheltered us and told us very little because I was not aware of the 'questionnaire.'
"I remember people coming to Tule Lake from other camps. Was it those who chose to go back to Japan? Shortly after, there were men with shaved heads, who were up early, did calisthenics and marched around saying, 'wa shoi, wa shoi.'
"Whenever I'm asked what camp I was in, people most often comment, 'Tule Lake! That's where the troublemakers were.' I'm quick to correct cheap hotels birmingham them that our family was sent directly to Tule Lake from Northern California and later the so-called 'troublemakers' came from other camps.
"I'm guessing that trouble began about that time in Tule Lake. We'd see soldiers coming and taking men away. Also, school was closed for six months. After leaving camp, I was behind cheap hotels birmingham half a year, but was fortunate they permitted me to finish the school year with others. Some chose to stay back and repeat the grade.
"I imagine those who were in their teens remember more. My children can't understand why I don't remember much about camp days. Today's children have access to TV and other media, whereas we were even without a radio in camp. Besides, our Issei parents seemed to keep things from us. On the other hand, I wonder why we didn't ask questions as youngsters do these days.
"Weenie Royale (eggs, onion, weenie, maybe some green veggies) was one that originated from camp meals. Lots of government surplus food used. One friend who was 13 at Amache said, 'Lots of egg-type dishes.' And, meats were hot dogs, baloney, Spam, lamb, chicken. The eggs were from the Amache Chicken Farm, located just outside the barbed-wire fences.
Well, Kaz Shiroyama sent me a bit on the Heart Mountain High School varsity football team, which played all of its games on its short schedule against "outside" teams and won all three games against Worland, Lovell and Powell cheap hotels birmingham high schools. In fact, they shut out all three teams.
"The Heart Mountain internment camp high school football team played only two seasons but in that time established a reputation as one of the  state's cheap hotels birmingham best teams. The Heart Mountain varsity played seven games over two seasons, going 6-1. All six of the team's victories were shutouts. The lone loss was a 19-13 defeat in a hard-fought game against Natron.
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