[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, September 6, 1942 ]

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[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, September 6, 1942 ]

Maker Iwate, Tatsumi

Date1942

Mediumpaper

ClassificationsArchives

Credit LineGift of the Iwate Family

Object number2001.145.134

Description(2) page letter on recto and verso to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate at QM Detachment Camp Carson, Colorado, on September 6, 1942. Tatsumi writes that making portraits of people you know is a good idea but why 'no girls', he asks if Mas is scared stiff, feels like a permanent guest in the Army camp, mentions a married soldier gets something like 78 dollars, he keeps 28 and the rest goes to his wife and that it looks like a dirty deal but the wife belongs to the husband anyway, that his girl Mari sent him a long and sweet letter and that she works in the Mess Hall from 6 AM, that Jack Wada wrote to him and that his kid brother, George Wada became a Corporal at Camp Berkeley, Texas, that at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, there is a combat unit composed of Nisei, mostly born in Hawaii.