Pat Morita, el señor Miyagi
de Karate Kid, habla sobre cómo fue
escoltado por un agente del FBI,
cuando todavía era niño, desde el hospital donde había estado internado hasta
el campo de concentración en Gila,
donde ya estaban sus padres. El inglés de Morita
no es difícil de entender, aunque los nombres hay que buscarlos, como Gila Camp o Tule Lake. Entrevista imperdible a Pat Morita sobre un
pedazo de la historia de los Estados
Unidos (un video cortito)
En vocabulario:
intern, y cast. Para saber: Weimar Institute
I was escorted
from the hospital by an FBI agent to join my parents at an internment camp…
… my mother had
this strong feeling that perhaps he may not live through the war…
Morita was born in Isleton, California
in 1932, from Japanese parents.
Morita developed spinal tuberculosis at the age of two and spent the bulk of
the next nine years in the Weimar Institute in Weimar, California, and later at the Shriners Hospital in San Francisco. For long periods he was
wrapped in a full-body cast
and was told that he would never walk. Released from the hospital at age 11,
after undergoing extensive spinal surgery and learning how to walk, Morita was transported from the hospital
directly to the Gila River camp in Arizona to join his interned
family. After about a year and a half, he was transferred to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center.
Harvey Itano, 1942 |
Pat Morita on internment camp during World War II
I was escorted from
the hospital by an FBI agent to join my parents at an internment camp in the
middle of Arizona and I was, what a kid knows about wars, I was living in Milwaukee,
they said this kid would never walk. And I felt I was a kind of big deal
because an FBI guy carrying a piece, he was scorting me. The first place we
were to live in was called Gila, g-i-l-a, as in Gila River. It was called The Gila
River Internment Center. Uncle Sam, and we Americans, like to use euphemistic
words or indent words, if we think other words are too harsh. So they called
them relocation centers. They were America´s version of concentration camps. I
went there, I stayed there about a year and a half. We moved from Gila to Tule
Lake. Tule Lake was right on the border of California and Oregon, way up north,
on the border. And the reason for that was my grandfather, on my father side,
at the time of all this separation, when the war broke out, he ended up in Tule
Lake with my uncle and we went to Gila, Arizona. So my mother had this strong
feeling that perhaps he may not live through the war and she wanted to be with
him. I forgot how we did it because I was too young to understand. That´s
how we got transferred to Tule Lake. (Suscríbete para saber de qué se trata
esta explicación sobre su prisión en un campo de concentración)
Para saber
Weimar Institute is a private educational and health care institution
in Weimar, California, United States.
It operates a college, academy, and lifestyle-oriented health care center. It
highlights traditional Seventh-day
Adventist principles of health and education, especially as espoused by
early Seventh-day Adventist founder Ellen G. White, who wrote extensively on
health and education. Weimar Institute is located on the
property formerly occupied by the Weimar
Joint Sanatorium, which operated from 1919 to 1972.
James and Ellen White |
Vocabulario
Intern: confine (someone) as a prisoner, especially for
political or military reasons.
"The family
were interned for the duration
of the war as enemy aliens"
Cast: a rigid encircling casing, often made of plaster of
Paris, for immobilizing broken bones while they heal.
He was wrapped
in a full-body cast…
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