San Jose Museum Trustee Applauds "Vanished"

This week's e-mails brought this wonderful comment from Paul DeWitt of San Jose.

I have just finished reading "Vanished: Lompoc's Japanese" and consider it to be an outstanding book.  I began studying Japanese American history when I was a Social Science teacher and Department Chair in 1988.  I am now on the Board of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.  Over the years I have tried to find any book that described the personal histories of Issei settling in California, the confrontations they had to deal with in their communities, the incarceration in the concentration camps during World War II and the problems both Issei and Nisei faced upon their return to the coast after internment.  Yours is the first book I have read that deals with these issues on a very personal level.  Although you are writing about Lompoc's Japanese, the same conditions existed for JAs  through out the west cost.  I recommend that "Vanished: Lompoc's Japanese" be read by anyone interested in JA, WWII and California history.
Thank you
Paul DeWitt