I am in love with my line of work – and I love California,
creating and brainstorming interactive material for
the public so rewarding – currently I am working on a audio guide for Fort Baker – Golden Gate National Rec Area and assisting an exhibit for the Buffalo Soldier –
I love the National Park Service
MIS Language School
Events in the late 1930s in the Far East
and Pacific Basin increasingly signaled the
possibility of war. In response, the U.S.
Army established the 4th Army Intelligence
School at the Presidio of San Francisco in
November of 1941. The school trained
Nisei—Japanese Americans born to
parents who had come to the U.S. from
Japan—to act as translators in the war
against Japan. The army converted a
hanger at Crissy Field into classrooms and
a bunk house. The hangar looked nothing
like a traditional school; outsiders were
told it was a laundry. The students studied
in their make-shift classrooms, played
volleyball for recreation, and walked to
the nearby Bakers and Cooks School in
Building 220 three times a day for meals.
Looking out their window in late
December 1941, the 60 students could see
damaged ships returning after the Pearl
Harbor attack of December 7. The yearlong
training program was then shortened
to six months.
Soldiers trained
Patriotism and Prejudice
One of the most poignant and sadly ironic home front stories of World War II has
deep connections to the Presidio. Even as Presidio officers issued orders to relocate
Americans of Japanese ancestry to internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor
in December, 1941, a secret military language school trained Japanese American
soldiers only a half mile away. The loyalty, sacrifice, and accomplishments of the
Japanese American soldiers trained at the Presidio and elsewhere were recognized
at the highest levels, but the nation forced their families to endure a very different
sacrifice as the army uprooted and ordered them into camps far from home.
I love San Francisco
I shop at this grocery Coop _ called Rainbow grocery – ( there is
only one ) it is not a chain and all these hippies own it..
the whole city shops there – it is great – they have a whole section
of just jars – upon jars – of herbs and teas !!!!
you bring – your own containers and sacks – and good majority of
things are in these bins and barrels – - The produce is out of this
world – and cheap – Farmers market cheap .
People just go to the grocery store to cruz -
I have walked out of the store with more then my groceries – if you no what I mean…
