Keith MacKinnon

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On Sundays, the Miho family put on shoes, dressed up in fancy clothes, and went to the Kahului Union Church, where they sang songs with lyrics like “Jesus loves me, this I know.” After the services they walked down the street to the Buddhist temple, where a priest in robes beckoned them in. They removed their shoes and sat on tatami mats while the priest, to everyone’s amusement, sometimes led them in singing, “Buddha loves me, this I know.”
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
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