Proof of Loyalty: 1944-1945- Hawaii, Italy, France, South Pacific, Japan
Tentative publishing date–2021
We follow Haru coping with the war in Hawaii, her husband interned, and her son fighting in Europe We wonder what happens to her Imperial army son and daughter trapped in Japan. We admire the fighting spirit of the 100th in the Battle of Cassino. We struggle alongside the Nisei up the hillsides in the Vosges mountains to save the “Lost Battalion.” We journey to the South Pacific with the oldest son recruited by Military Intelligence Service to interrogate POWs. At war’s end, we join him tending to atomic bomb victims at the Buddhist temple Haru once called home.