Soon after the women arrived, children—the Hawaiian Nisei—followed. And it was the boys among those children who now made up the bulk of the Buddhaheads at Camp Shelby. They knew well what their parents had endured at the hands of the powerful in Hawai‘i. They knew what they had experienced themselves growing up in a racially and economically stratified society. And they weren’t about to put up with a bunch of Japanese American boys their own age who sometimes seemed to mimic the language, the manners, and the attitudes of the haole bosses back home.
