The Enemy Wore My Face

"The Enemy Wore My Face" - a reading by Frances Kakugawa from her book, "Kapoho: Memoir of a Modern Pompeii." This selection is from the chapter called "The Enemy Wore My Face," about the effects of the Pearl Harbor bombing on life in Kapoho, a small village on the Big Island of Hawaii. In 1941, families of Japanese ancestry burned their own belongings for fear they would be branded "enemy sympathizers." The backyard bonfires presaged the fiery demise of Kapoho itself, buried beneath lava in the 1960 eruption of Kilauea volcano.

Kapoho: Memoir of a Modern Pompeii by Frances H. Kakugawa (ISBN 978-1-9356901-6-0) is available direct from Watermark Publishing (www.bookshawaii.net), at bookstores and online booksellers.

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• Frances Kakugawa
• Kapoho
• Hawaii
• Pearl Harbor