A cold wind from Idaho: poems

Pt. 1. The noble thing. Too young to remember

The noble thing

I. Therapy

II. Knot

III. Burial at Washelli Cemetery

We are defined by rice

First memory

pt. 2. The war years. For all that the government took from us

Imagined President Roosevelt and the White House Cabinet discussing the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor

The war years

Enola Gay and the big bomb

Hiroshima: I. After the war

Hiroshima: II. 50th anniversary of the bomb

Hiroshima: III. Family grave

Gorillas

1942 nightmare

Anna's tattoo

Hummingbird

They were expendable

Private first class Harry

Bainbridge, Washington: they were the first

Black hole

Go game

pt. 3. No longer heroes. I. Roots Lt. Ehren Watada

II. Court martial of Lt. Ehren Watada

III. Blaine Methodist Church presentation

FBI after 9-11

War on terror: border crossing

Daruma maker

In memory of Cliff

Salmon dreams

Sun Ya Bar

Higo's five and dime

No longer heroes

Reflections while falling

Survivor

Finding Morelia, Michoacan

Salmon journey

Matsutake Tori: the last pine mushroom hunt

Arc de Triomphe, 2003 invasion of Iraq

Afterword

comments and observations / Dr. Tetsuden (Tetsu) Kashima

Final comments on A cold wind from Idaho.