According to the article, the real tragedy of Japanese internment was not a loss of freedom of a pseudo-criminalization of innocent human beings on the grounds of name, language, color, or great-grandmother's country of origin. It was that white women of upper-class San Francisco might not have someone to fold their skivvies.”
-- Cowney (chapter 3)

Importance: Cowney has been reading an article about the Japanese Americans who were being held in camps on Indian reservations. He is not surprised that there is no mention of the cruelty being visited on the Japanese, many who held American citizenship, and that the newspaper reports the biggest horror with the situation is that wealthy white women are having trouble finding domestic help.

I had certainly seen my fair share of animal bones, either happening upon them in the woods or excavating them from a fresh hunt. Something felt different about this one.”
-- Cowney (chapter 8)

Importance: Cowney has just found the...