Message from mmoore

[Anonymous]

First - Page 355 - " . . US Fleet's arrival . . ." All of these excerpts were great use of documents for our students to see different perspectives - tho' most American. The last line gave me a laugh, "There is no lack of pluck in the American people."

The two stories on the "replacement" of Korean names with Japanese names were quite touching. Were the Japanese trying to erase the history of these people? That the father and other men in the village were wearing mourning in "Lost Names," was their quiet way of protest. Was this one of the final steps toward assimilation? I thought it quite touching that each of the two different families chose last names that were a sense of strength to them. In, "When My Name was Keoko," Sun hee plays with her Japanese friend Tomo till schooling will eventually separate them. It shows that for those young children, nationalities made no difference. They could be friends despite the world around them.