A Cautious Patriotism
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- Leroy Gardner (top middle), Kiyoo Shimatsu (bottom right), and Stan Yamashita (bottom left) in the 1944 Bethel Yearbook – Bethel University Digital Library
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- War bonds ad in a 1943 issue of The Bethel Clarion – Bethel University Digital Library
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- While the BGC’s denominational magazine took a staunchly neutralist stance before December 1941, the Conference Press was selling patriotic materials like this Robert Jones painting as of the summer of 1941
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- “It’s our patriotic duty to give your car the best of service”: an ad that ran in 1943 issues of Bethel’s student newspaper
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- 1945 ad in The Clarion
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- The freshman class of Bethel Junior College in 1943-1944: Yamashita and Shimatsu sit in the first row (1st and 3rd from left, respectively); Gardner is in the third row, 2nd from left – Bethel University Digital Library
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- Bethel Class of ’47 in 1943-44
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- Shimatsu in Bethel’s Pep Band (an ensemble “not heard from too frequently”) admitted The Spire – Bethel University Digital Library
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- Rev. Paul Nagano in a 1999 oral history interview – Densho
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- Sunday School class at the Poston concentration camp, ca. 1944 – Densho
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- Platts (left, next to fellow English professor Alice Johnson) also had her students recite war poems by the likes of A.A. Milne, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Carl Sandburg at a 1944 convocation – Bethel University Digital Library
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- A leading Reform rabbi, Wise served as president of the World Jewish Congress until his death in 1949 – Library of Congress
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- WAACs recruiting poster – U.S. National Archives
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