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Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp

My Name Is America:
The Journal of Ben Uchida:

Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942

by Barry Denenberg
ISBN: 0-590-48531-8

Heartbreaking and humorous, this is the story of a twelve-year-old prisoner in one of America's Japanese internment camps of World War II.

Tuesday, April 21, 1942
I never thought I looked different from the other kids. Never once, even though most of them are Caucasian, except for Billy Smith, who's a Negro, and Charles Hamada, who's part Japanese, part jerk.

But now I realized my face was different. My hair was black. My skin was yellow. My eyes were narrow. It never seemed to matter before, but it sure did matter now. Now my face was the face of the enemy.

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