Stanley Hayami: Nisei Son - His Diary, Letters, & Story: From American Concentration Camp to Battlefield, 1942-1945

Sent to Heart Mountain in Wyoming with his family, sixteen-year-old Stanley Hayami began keeping a diary in November 1942. In many ways, his diary is like that of any teenager, full of hopes and dreams and concerns about grades and the future. The drawings and sketches he added to the diary show his artistic talents. Hayami’s diary is in the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum.