Only What We Could Carry Mother's Day and survival as highly literate

and survival as highly literate men faced with captivity in the little-known prison camps run by the U

William Hohri

Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar

Set against the backdrop of the 1960s

Only What We Could Carry Mother's Day and survival as highly literateBy Lawson Fusao Inada , Patricia Wakida , William Hohri. In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country. Through personal documents, art, and propaganda, Only What We Could Carry expresses through words, art, and haunting