{"id":1806,"date":"2009-04-15T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2014-05-20T00:40:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T04:40:04","slug":"in-defense-of-our-neighbors-the-walt-and-milly-woodward-story-by-mary-woodward-foreword-by-david-guterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/in-defense-of-our-neighbors-the-walt-and-milly-woodward-story-by-mary-woodward-foreword-by-david-guterson\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story by Mary Woodward, foreword by David Guterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/In-Defense-of-Our-Neighbors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29748\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/In-Defense-of-Our-Neighbors-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"In Defense of Our Neighbors\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>If such things are possible, this is actually (almost) a\u00a0happy\u00a0book about the Japanese American internment experience, as improbable as that sounds. Yes, the unfortunate Americans of Japanese descent who lived on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound across from Seattle, Washington \u2013 who made up a substantial 10% of the island&#8217;s diverse population \u2013 were still forcibly removed from their homes and ended up sent to prison camps for three years during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike some of their less fortunate inmates, Bainbridge Island&#8217;s Japanese Americans never lost touch with a loyal, supportive community led by a young couple, Walt and Milly Woodward, who together published the local paper <em>Bainbridge Review<\/em>. This dedicated pair, neither of them with any formal training in journalism, although Walt had been a Seattle reporter \u2013 used their island publication to condemn the rampant racism, the wartime hysteria, and when relocation proved inevitable,\u00a0made sure that their Japanese American friends and neighbors stayed in contact with their island home.\u00a0When over half of the Japanese American families returned home upon release \u2013 a substantially higher rate of return than the rest of the Northwest \u2013 island residents knew who had had babies, marriages, tragedies, and other such news, because the Woodwards had insisted on making regular updates of the prisoners&#8217; everyday lives a priority in their <em>Bainbridge Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>In Defense<\/em>\u00a0is a heartwarming collage of stories from both sides of the barbed wire fence &#8230; and how that communication stayed alive and well through the three-year wartime ordeal and beyond. It&#8217;s historical artifact with some never-before-published photos. It&#8217;s lessons on immigration and unjust laws inserted in between the human experiences that bring that history to life. Most of all, it&#8217;s an earnest, necessary reminder of how people help one another, look out for one another, and find true humanity in the worst of times.<\/p>\n<p>And the significance of that David Guterson foreword? Yes, he&#8217;s a Bainbridge Islander, but more importantly, the editor Arthur Chambers in his bestselling novel, <em>Snow Falling on Cedars<\/em>, is actually based on Walt Woodward himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If such things are possible, this is actually (almost) a\u00a0happy\u00a0book about the Japanese American internment experience, as improbable as that sounds. 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