Heart Mountain | Takashi Hoshizaki

Hoshizaki and other courageous Japanese Americans resisted the draft, saying they would gladly serve as soon as their families were released from prison and their constitutional rights were restored.

Diary of Takashi Hoshizaki: June 26, 1944

“Today we went to the courtroom at 1:45. Got our 3-year sentence at 2:30.

Judge Kennedy assumed that the evacuation and detention is constitutional.

I think he’s nuts. Anyhow we are going to appeal our case.”