(the andrew sisters' "boogie woogie bugle boy" plays) hey, we're running out of sun, dingbat. come on. let's play. let me finish. oh, hi, skip. oh, that's a good one, son. you even got the robin's nest. thanks, ma. where's dad? working late, i suppose. announcer (on radio): and now, a news update. yesterday, japan continued its attacks along mount samat. the us philippine vision suffered heavy losses... (radio clicks off) (car horn honking) oh, my god. golly. ♪ because the next day the cap went out and drafted a band ♪ ♪ and now the company jumps when he plays reveille ♪ ♪ he's the boogie woogie bugle boy of company b ♪ ♪ a-toot, a-toot, a-toot-diddlyada-toot... ♪

sorry i'm late, sweetheart. how can we afford a new car? the bank just cleared us a loan for two new stores. it's called franchising. i thought they said "no." i wento the old backup plan. the backup plan being "don't give up"? never fails. is this a packard? yep. gonna drive you tort classes in style. hey, what do we have here? some fatheads at school. blame me for pearl harbor. we're as american as those boys. you sock 'em back? i thought fighting was bad. it is. but standing up for yourself is another thing, son. don't forget that. huh? game of touch, mr. t.? absolutely, skip. here you go. come on, huddle up, billy. you, too, honey. let's go. skip, you're going down. i don't think so. come on. you stay away there, skip. let's do ts. ready? team. 342! 342!

oh, never seen sh a swell-looking center. what are ya doing after the game, hotcakes? wouldn't you le to know. dad, come on! all right, hike! ♪ ...jumps when he plays reveille ♪ ♪ he's the boogie woogie bugle boy ♪ ♪ of company b. ♪ he's the boogie woogie (song ends) dad? "all japanese persons, both alien "and non-alien, will be evacuated by noon on april 7, 1942." what do they mean, "alien and non-alien"? they mean us.

(sighs) court that bad? yeah. coffee there makes this stuff gourmet. last day of boss's suspension. jeffries said he put in his retirement papers. any word on who'll be coming in? well, not jeffries. some clown from west. been reassigned six times. don't know what i'd do if i didn't come here every day. some things i'd miss. some things i wouldn't, like court. hmm. well, pains in the ass, those adas. yeah, real pains. usually, that is. more like 24/7.

woman: excuse me. are you detectives? yeah. my father, raymond takahashi, was killed in 1945. they never caught who did it. 60-plus years ago, long time. i just found a $20,000 check from the government issued to my mother in 1990. tax refund? restitution. my family was at the manzanar relocation center. manzanar, what's that? a camp in california where they held japanese americans during world war ii. an internment camp. i was born there. so what's that got to do with your father's murder? my father was killed a few months after we got out and moved to philly. maybe the police were looking inhe wrong place for his murderer? maybe. i found this old picture... ...of my parents and my big brother, billy.

he died in the war. the way she smiled at them... she never looks at me like that. i'd love one chance to meet the woman in that picture. we'll take a look. can't promis we'll find anything. i understand. thank you. so, the guy survives being locked up in an internment camp. only to be killed in the city of brotherly love. captioning sponsored by warner bros. television

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what?! that's the walmart low price guarantee backed by ad match. save time and money getting your kids ready for school. bring in receipts from your local stores and see for yourself. save more this back to school on convenient after school snacks with low prices on gushers value packs and hot pockets sandwiches with our low price guarantee backed by ad match. ray takahashi. body found a few blocks from the old municipal stadium. night of the army/navy football game. he was beaten, pushed down a flight of stairs, broke his neck. theory was, some drunk bigot roughed him up. all of two interviews.o far. worked real hard on this one. 'cause, "a jap's a jap," right? well, ray's family lived in california till fdr banned all japanese-americans from the west coast in 1942. jeffries: over 100,000 were forced into camps without due process. most were born and raised here. and none were ever arrested for espionage. ray's son, billy, gave up his life for the american dream. died overseas in 1944. found an empty envelope on ray's body.

addressed to him in manzanar. return address just says "apo-513." army post office-- how we used to get our mail home. the letter could be from his kid, billy. not likely; it was mailed november 27, 1944. billy died october 30. jeffries: an envelope, no letter. contents could be a motive. so, what's our letter writer hiding? something that happened at manzanar? let's track down all the records we can get from there, and have latents take a look. good luck getting a print off a 60-year-old envelope. boss was military, too. might have some input. you'd have better luck with the print. thank you. quiet getting to you? i'm not much of a cook, frankly. right. you here for the chili? no, for a job. japanese-american camp internee killed in '45.

night of the army/navy game. my father went to that game. proud army man. well, it must've broke his heart. you going navy. he got over it... eventually. found this on our victim's body. apo's the only clue to who sent it. well, have latents take a look. i'm sure jeffries already told you that. our victim's son, billy, died in the war. was an army guy, 442n all japanese-american unit. most decorated battalion for its size. i could use your eyes on this one, boss. i put my papers in already, lil. you know that. so what're we supposed to do without you kicking our asses? (chuckles) huh? you'll survive.

enjoy your chili. why did you bring this stranger here, barbara? you know i don't want to talk about it. it's been 62 years, mom. isn't it time you did? you recognize this, mrs. takahashi? no. your husband had it when he was killed. he know anyone in the army who might've sent ? no. that's quite the picture. you draw that? my son did. billy. that's him with his best friend, skip, from home. heard about your son's unit, the 442nd. not many have.

real heroic guys. the war was supposed to make us equal. it didn't. because you were in the camps? it's okay to talk about it, mom. what difference does it make? solving your husband's murder. maybe manzanar had something to do with it. why? we were just a number. no names. 8108. like criminals. he make any enemies there? from the moment we arrived. man: let's go! bring it out! let's go! come on, right now! we're moving it out, quickly! quickly! come on, right here! right here! in a line! right here! let's go! ♪ there'll be bluebirds over ♪ the white cliffs of dov ♪ there'll be bluenot too long. it's for our own protection. but why are the guns pointed at us? billy, we just sit tight, be good citizens and we'll be out of here lickety-split, understand?

your name, sir? takahashi. okay, you will be in block 18, room 7 with the watanabe family. we have to share? at least we'll be together. mattresses. down the way, you can fill them with straw. uh, so how is the school here? bet you folks didn't know you've got a young rembrandt visiting. oh. are you an artist? i guess. me, too. i teach a pen and ink class. it's going to be fun. i made this... so that you don't forget you're americans. i just wanted to give you some sort of welcome. well, your smi is welcome enough. i've seen nothing but frowns all day. sun's still shinning. don't understand. he messing with you, mary anne? no, larry. it's okay. don't know why they let you people in this country. i was born here. uh-huh. bet you got cousins in the old country

fighting for the eeror. scholz. that german? your cousins fighting for hitler? you watch it, mister. pick it up. i said pick it up, jap. (vera lynn's "white cliffs of dover" continues) the funny thing about wars, kid... they always find a way to end. hope we meet outside this fence one day. count on that. yeah. and this guard had it out for your husband? he trolled the camp, gun at the ready, looking for trouble. he and ray ever have another run-in? not that i know of.

vera: i found our guard. larry scholz. shipped out of manzanar in '43. stationed in italy till the end of the war. a rock-solid alibi if i ever heard one. vera: not quite. got a medal at the 1945 army/navy game, here in philly. it's the same night ray was killed. valens: maybe they met up again, and larry decided the world needed one less jap. 'cause keeping them in prison wasn't enough. we were at war. they'd have done the same to us if we were in japan. feel the same if it was your family? so where's larry scholz's current place of residence? uh... va hospital in virginia. whoa. that's a five-hour drive. vera: larry scho? miller: philly pd. here about ray takahasi. taga what? hashi. takahashi. he was at the manzanar internment camp in 1942,

under your watch. vera: murdered in '45. witness thinks you had a beef with him. beef? you kidding me? i was just doing my job. we were at war. did you... send this to ray while overseas? never seen that before in my life. look close. i'll look all you want. i didn't send that letter to some enemy of the state. hated the guy, didn't you? kept tabs on him at camp, sure. part of my duties. how long did you watch ray for? till i realized his old ball and chain was keeping him too busy to make any trouble. ("this is no laughing matter" by glenn miller plays) you drawing me another pretty blue jay? sure, ma. hey, roosevelt lifted the ban against japanese-american enlistment. does that mean we can leave? oh, no. but it means you can enlist, son.

enlist? prove we're as american as the rest. ray: you're going to make a great soldier. i know you got it in you. this what i'd be fighting for? billy... what would i say on the first day, dad? private 8108, reporting to duty? this is just temporary. we act right, prove ourselves, they'll see we don't belong here. i'm not going. ray: what the hell's the matter with him? evelyn: we've been acting "right" for a year already in this place. the whole country's making sacrifices. we have to play our part. we're living in a shack, standing in line for food like beggars. we have lost everything we worked for. open your eyes, ray-- for once. wait, wait, wait! wait, wait... come on! evelyn... you love those plates. i'm pregnant.

what? you are? that's fantastic. i can't raise a baby in a place like this. not as a prisoner. ♪ while you break my heart. didn't have it in me to harass him after that. real sweet of you, larry. where were you the night of the army/navy game? getting my medal. ask truman. ceremony didn't last all night. talk to my commanding officer. he's right down the hall. in the president's suite. rush: larry scholz's lieutenant confirmed his alibi. a real door prize, that guy. forgot your file, will. john. good to see you. just dropping it off. any oughts on who sent the envelope?

i talked to my military contacts about it. the army post office number came from a french hospital. no army examiner's stamp. meaning? meaning it didn't go through inspection. it came from an officer. hmm. thanks. got to go. good luck. just dropping something off. right. manzanar logs. one visitor the three years ray was there. skip robertson. jeffries: billy's friend. it makes sense he would visit. turns out skip was also billy's lieutenant. injured in the same battle that killed billy in france. could be our letter writer. so what's he hiding?

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starting at just $20. appreciate you driving out from jersey, skip. oh, please, call me eugene. hmm. recognize this handwriting? yeah... it's mine. where'd you get it? ray takahashi had it when someone pushed him down a flight of stairs the night of the army/navy game in '45. ray takahashi was murdered? you that someone, skip? give him a push? probably were in town for the game. right? i was with my army buddies all night, and i can give you names. do that. listen, billy was my best friend.

the takahashis were like family to me. look, after billy died, i was sent to the south pacific and we lost touch. what was in the envelope? it was the last letter billy wrote before he died. i found it on his things and sent it to his family. what'd it say? i don't know. listen, billy was a brave soldier. they all were, the 442nd. billy didn't seem like your average gung-ho soldier. he didn't want to enlist, and it broke ray's heart. and that's the reason ray asked me to come visit. ("praise the lord and pass the ammunition" plays) i just can't wait to get overseas. let those nazis have it. your parents must be so proud. your dad says you're not joining up. no matter what we do, we'll always be japs to them. hey, you won't fight for this country, you make them right about us, billy. what do you know about fighting? what? why didn't you sock that guard, dad? i thought you were supposed to stand up for yourself.

ray: you are. but things aren't so simple now, not in this world. they treat us like dirt here. how can you ask me to fight when you won't? man: ray. you been telling bs on the block to enlist? you stay out of this, shinji. no, you stay out. this country treats our children like caged animals. lower your voice. the guards will hear you, send you away. guards. you know what this is? toilet paper. guess what we are. (grunts) he do this? don't ask me that, guard. i'll ask what i want, tojo. did this man desecrate the american flag?

yes. you worthless traitor! you'll have our boys' blood on your hands! this isn't over, ray! this isn't over! our kids-- think about it! our kids! ♪ praise the lord and pass the ammunition ♪ ♪ and we'll all be free. never forget the look on his face. do you know if shinji and ray clashed again after that? shinji was sent off to tule lake that day, for desecrating the flag, and i saw him leave myself. vera: looking into the 1945 murder of ray takahashi. name ring a bell? we lived in that rat hole they called a detention center. so what? heard manzanar was no picnic; tule lake was even worse.

valens: long interrogations, cold weather, stockades-- you put up with a lot. all because ray takahashi pinned you for a flag burner. valens: then ray ends up dead in the same city you set up residence in. coincidence? a lot of us came here after the war because of the quakers. they helped us get back on our feet. my wife and i stuck. valens: a guy like that "traitor"... sends me away from my family, i'd be pretty pissed off. so maybe you get out of tule lake, sore to find your buddray. i was still behind barbed wire when ray died. didn't get out of tule lake till '46, 'cause i answered "no" twice to the government loyalty questionnaire. loyalty questionnaire? asked if we'd be willing to fight in the war, renounce the japanese emperor. oh. and you refused to? didn't know the damn emperor's name. i was born here. just like you. far as the government was concerned...

i was just a jap. and so was ray. but he still couldn't see it. ♪ why do you whisper, green grass ♪ ♪ why tell the trees what ain't so? ♪ ♪ whispering grass ♪ the trees don't have to know... ♪ hey, ray. you done for the day? ah, almost. ray: i've been reading up on your hometown, philadelphia. understand the quakers have quite a presence there. we do. maybe when this business is over, you could help introduce me to some folks. of course. i uld help you find an apartment. i appreciate it. uh, wait, i have something for you. carrots. for your victory garden.

you and billy can plant them. thanks, but i'm on my own today. oh, busy with classes? busy blaming me for the whole war. it's that age. he... he doesn't want to enlist. doesn't believe in dying for this country. does it make me a bad american if part of me believes that now, too? no. not in this place. i always thought i'd be judged on my character, not my skin. i was wrong. ray, you have to know, i never saw you as the enemy. it's not fair that you have to start over. i've been starting over my whole life. easy as pie. (laughs softly) thanks. for what? you make me forget about where we really are.

you make me forget, too. ♪ why tell them all the old things? ♪ ♪ they're buried under the snow ♪ ♪ whispering grass, don't... so, ray and the quaker were doing the dirty? the man preached loyalty on his soapbox, but he wasn't loyal. at least not to his wife. so mary anne helped ray move to philly. continued the affair? or not, if evelyn found out. dumped mistress, betrayed wife. nothing worse than a woman scorned. how about two?

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heard you two were pretty close. acquaintances at best. that all, mary anne? at are you implying? that you killed him. when he wouldn't leave his wife for you. you think i killed my husband? that i wanted to raise a child on my own? rush: that era? easier to be a widow than a divorcée. yes. easy. first ray has an affair with a white woman. next he's hauling you and the baby around the country to her hometown. talk about a slap in the face. i'd be a5. young, foolish. so you turned to ray for some desert lovin'. men like ray were rare. special. what we were doing to them was wrong. you fell in love. no. we had that one kiss, that's all. he saihis wife was the only woman he could ever love.

miller: rejection like that?y. ray told her i was the only woman he could love. and you believed him? ray was a ntleman. we never spoke of it again. his wife find out about it? i didn't realize my one, small indiscretion would destroy his family. ♪ takahashi. billy! billy! what are you doing? joining up. you were just going to leave without saying good-bye? not even to your mother? i said good-bye to her. what about me? you? you talk about being american, about liberty and truth, but you're the biggest liar here. what are you talking about? you and that schoolteacher. everyone knows. you don't understand.

what? things aren't so simple now? is that your excuse for mom, too? you want to be a soldier, fine, but do it for e right reasons. this isn't about me. sure it is. it's about taking a bullet for a country that's turned you into a coward, that's called me a jap since i can remember. you don'know what it's like. don't i?! i've been called every name in the book, treated like dirt and had to smile in the face of it. but i never let that destroy me, make me run away. like you are now, son. don't go, not like this. too late. billy! billy! you do not walk away from me, damn it! i want... i want you to... i want... i want you to come home safe, son.

home? i don't have a home. not anymore. ♪ we got the news about billy a few months later. they never got a chance to make peace. no. you got your apartment because of mary anne's generosity. if leaving that hell meant taking advantage of a crush some silly woman had on my husband, then so be it. any mother would have done the same. for barbara? and for my son. i wanted him to come home to a real home.

not one behind bars. but he never got that chance. evelyn: and we'll leave on a big train. and you'll get to feel cool air instead of this dusty, cold wind. train will be here soon. i stopped by the woodworking hut. i've been... i've been making these for you. to replace what we had. plus the next time you get mad at me, they won't break. i guess it's time for the backup plan. don't give up? don't give up... on us. you're my whole life.

you're the only thing that kept me going here. we'll use them in philadelphia. in our new home, when billy returns. the four of us. the four of us. i like the sound of that. it's time to go. evelyn: ray, what is it?

ray?! ray? (sobbing quietly) that's how they told us our son was dead. in a telegram. i'm sorry. it breaks my heart that ray and billy died angry at each other. we weren't the only family that got a telegram that day. shinji's family got one. shinji nakamura?

the neighbor who went to tule lake? his son was in the army? one of the first to enlist. ray talked him into it. finally got shinji's tule lake records. alibi check out? nope. shinji wasn't released in 1946 li he said. got out on november 23, 1945. a few days before ray was killed. even better, he used the train ticket the government bought him to head to philly, but his wife was in california. and you don't travel 3,000 miles just to say hello.

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'cause that cinnamon and sugar is so irresistible. cinnamon toast crunch. crave those crazy squares.® vera: cinnamon toast crunch. "you'll have blood on your hands, "convincing our boys to fight. this isn't over." wasn't just any blood ray had on his hands. it was your son's. my son would've done anything to prove he was american. he got his wish. that doesn't change the fact that you were in philadelphia when ray was murdered. valens: see, we make good on our threats, too. checked the records at tule lake. vera: 25 bucks and a ticket to philly. (sighs) i came here to see ray, but i didn't kill him. then why lie? frankly, not a lot of faith in the american justice system. valens: point taken. doesn't answer the question. i came here to give him billy's letter. they were long gone when the letter came to manzanar. didn't realize you two were bosom buddies. we weren't. but ray paid the same price i did to this country:

a son. he deserved to have that letter. and i had a question to ask him. what question? how to go on. but it was clear he no longer had any answers for me. ♪ i'm making believe ♪ that you're in my arms ♪ though i know you're so far away ♪ ray? ♪ making believe i'm talking to you ♪ what are you doing here? ♪ wish you could hear what i say... ♪ this letter came to manzanar after you left. my wife wanted to make sure you got it. i don't want anything from that place.

it's from billy. billy's gone. they're saying they can't send my boy's body home for at least another year. do you know what i'd do for a letter, anything from him? they already tore it down. the camp. like it never existed. my son died for a country that tosses out its sins like the kitchen garbage. i'm surprised they even remeer our boys' names. ♪ they were heroes. and this country should give our boys the medals they deserve. ♪ making believe it's you

can they bring him back to me, shinji? (voice breaking): can they do that? ♪ and here in the gloom of my lonely room... ♪ shinji, wait. shinji! he said he was going to get billy his medal. he changed his mind just like that? after he read billy's letter. vera: that's why he was outside the stadium. army-navy game. where they were giving out the distinguished combat medals that night. billy deserved a medal. your son did, too.

threw himself on a grenade to save a white battalion. what a brave kid. and dad's last wish was to see him honored for it. isn't this who we speak for? people like billy, ray. sure you can walk away from them, boss? if ray wanted his son to get that medal, he'd need a nomition from his commanding officer. billy's friend skip. he was at the army-navy game that night. france. italy. the south pacific. two bronze stars and a purple heart. you were quite the soldier, skip.

call me eugene now. hmm. served in vietnam myself. hmm. then you had it worse than we did. war is war, right? i had a buddy in 'nam-- manny isoy. filipino guy. (laughs) here we were fighting off the vietcong, and i'm stuck with a guy who looked just like the enemy. what are the odds, huh? soldier's a soldier. manny proved himself to be. he died saving another guy in our unit. a hero. stillman: once we were on patrol, we got caught in an ambush. he got tore up pretty bad. when the smoke cleared, i saw this gook running towards me. i came this close to killing him. but it was manny. why are you telling me this? billy was your best friend. yes, he was. first-rate guy.

so what happened? when he died, you were shipped to the south pacific. you saw kamikazes ruin your ships, pow camps ruin your friends. i get it, eugene. believe me. there's nothing to get. they want you to come back to this world and be the same as when you left. but you're not. ray takahashi appeed to skip, the boy he knew in california, but skip was gone. (sighs) (sighs) fighting for your life every day. you-you know and those faces... hating you. fas that looked like billy and like ray? that's why they put them in these camps! they didn't deserve medals. they were the enemy.

(laughter and squealing) ♪ all over the world (woman laughing) ♪ and the boys are home again ray: skip! ♪ all over the world (car engine idling) (train whistle blowing) go on. i'lcatch up with you guys later. (engine revving) ♪ that may fall from the skies above ♪ i need to talk to you. can't. shipping back out tomorrow. ♪ a kiss won't mean good-bye... ♪ it's about billy. he deserves the distinguished combat medal. those medals arefor. that's what he was, and you know it. billy sacrificed himself to save others. that's what you people do, isn't it? kamikazes. suicide missions. skip... kill yourselves, and you take good, innocent people with you. a jap's a jap.

what happened to you over there? why send this letter if you didn't care about us anymore? read this. read this and tell me it's a lie. stop. tell me those boys weren't heroes. stop! that billy doesn't deserve that medal. go home, jap. (train whistle blows) i am home. my boy was more of an american than you'll ever be. (grunting) (grunts) billy: "dear dad... "it's the night before we go into battle, "and i can't sleep. "even in my dreams, "i hear the artillery, and i'm so afraid.

"when i need to be brave, "i think of you, dad, "and your strength in a world that's no longer simple. "sometimes i dream i'm home again, "drawing pictures of you, mom and little barbara. "none of us behind bars. "because in my dreams, we're free. "i know now that's why i'm here. "it's not about who i'm fighting against, "but who i'm fighting for. "you, dad. "and what your dreams of america could be. "should be.

"i see all of us on this battlefield-- "white, black, "brown, yellow. "and that's the america i know. "maybe one day i'll see you there, dad. love, your son, billy." captioning sponsored by warner bros. television