"Dramatic Meeting -- As the returned Japs chatted gayly at Union Station, a group of Marines (who had seen action in the Pacific theater) filed past. Above photo was taken as veterans of the Second Marine Divison left their trains at the station. Notice Marine in center who turns to stare at the Nips."--caption on photograph

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OAC Japanese American Relocation photograph collection

{return from Manzanar, return from Guadalcanal. the image is a setup really, 13 soldiers against two well-dressed women and a child. there is innocence visible, and it isn't evenly distributed, but there is no moral valence, no vanishing point of truth, everyone's clean and travelling through this bright clean place, away from the unspeakable, having survived.}