Letters, between Paul and Ann Noble. Newspaper clipping: The Rafu Shimpo, “KABC to Air Camp Documentary. Anchorwoman Joanne Ishimine will host a one-hour documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of the relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII, titled “Memories of the Camps”. Letter from Paul to Ann Noble – paragraph 5: “I have never heard anyone say that the 442nd and 100th infantry troops were used as ‘shock troops’ in Italy and Europe, hence the 700 combat deaths, but shock troops they were. It would be too much to expect Japanese American Veterans to own up to this reality. They have to believe that they (majority of them) volunteered, as Clarence Matsumura says, “to prove their loyalty”, otherwise, they might have blood on their hands. My position is that a person born a U.S. citizen, need not prove loyalty, it is inherent, part of the concept of innocent, until the committing of an act that proves otherwise. My personal belief is that many of my generation (children of Japanese immigrants), nurtured in a hostile environment for our parents where they could not legally become citizens or own land in California, where for cultural reasons education was highly prized so that we were expected to live out our parents dreams. That in this process, we, children of immigrants like so many other ethnic children of immigrants, became white in our values. This is a concept well understood in the written works of other children of immigrants. Therefore, it is not surprising that we volunteered out of the camps to prove our loyalty. I did not come to terms with my whiteness, indeed did not realize that my values were white (all of our 3 children do not have Japanese middle names as my parents wanted), until at about age 40, I became involved in the civil rights struggles of the 60s and 70s.”