Before the Evacuation

Florin, Sacramento County, California.  A soldier and his mother in a strawberry field.  The soldier, age 23, volunteered July 10, 1941, and is stationed at Camp Leonard Wood, Missouri.  He was furloughed to help his mother and family prepare for their evacuation.  He is the youngest of six children, two of the volunteers in the U.S. Army.  The mother, age 53, came from Japan 37 years ago.  Her husband died 31 years ago, leaving her to raise six children.  She worked in a strawberry basket factory until last year when her children leased three acres of strawberries "so she wouldn't have to work for somebody else."  The family is Buddhist.  This is her youngest son.  Her second son is in the army stationed at Ft. Bliss.  453 families are to be evacuated from this area.

See Gordon and Okihiro, Impounded,
for further information.