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1I By MARY HKNANTI! Kl Paso TimesLAS CHUCKS (AIM Kay Tashiro was in his 60s and had a , son in thi* service, doing his part'I tor the U.S. war effort Yet1 Tashiro found himself teingtreated w ith hate and suspicion unable to travel without an (» identification cardHis farm's livelihood wasJt threatened and his family'si claim on land a mile north ofI .as Cruces w as disputed Tashiro was a Japanese living in the United States after Pearl Harbor was bombed His daughter. Sue Yanaga. \ herself now in her 60s, recenntlyrecalled the backlash againsther father and her familyl because of their heritageTashiro came to the United States in 1909 He bought land and lieeome a widely respected farmer His knowledge of melon growing earned him the f title “Cantaloupe King in NewMexico, Texas. Colorado andL Arizonatover tailed transplants can push kidnev disease victims to‘Ifsuicide, a studv says, but two. wpatients whose ojierations sueceeded say the psychologicalhardships are a reasonable price to pay for health Transplant patient Dave Daggett. 54. is now enthusiastic after 14 months with a new kidnev. but said Thursday thatwhen he was on dialysis, “Ireally didn't teel like a person Ifelt like someone they were*•keeping alive artificially “in a study reported today.researchers at the University ot Colorado Health Sciences Center examined causes of death in 209 patients who received kidney transplants during a 5 year period ending in1979.During 2'j to 71* years ot tollowup. 2f percent or 54of the patients dust, includingeight who committed suicide Most of the rest dust from infecI ion or heart or blood \ essel pro blemsBoth Daggett and fellowBut then World War IIeruptedTashiro saw his friends taken to an internment camp in Lord sburg, where two of them diedIn 1945, a hostile post war public tried to deport MrsYanaga. even though she had !een born in Denver, w as a U Scitizen and had never knownany other country Now that a federal commission has recommended Con gress pay reparations toJapanese Americans w ho were put interned in camps during the war. Mrs Yanaga justshakes her head After 4u years. Mrs Yanaga said, it isn't possible to makemoral or financial reparations How ” she asked After allthese years, how ‘The Tashiros consideredthemselves Americans, she said When World War II broke out Mrs Yanaga said, the familv was liewildered overtransplant patient Calvin Dahl. 24. said they experienced ex trcrnc fatigue and depressionwhile on dialysis .it the medualcenter Daggett had to quit his jot* until he goi the transplantwhile Dahl took Mondays offTBF1Dahl, w ho spent 2lt;» months on dialysis and 53 days in the hospital after the transplantand gained to pounds due to achange in metabolism sparked by anti reject ion drugs. said thepossibility of kidney rejection ts always there But when you gel out ot the hospital, you’re just prettythankful.' said Dahl You tryand live as normal a life as yin*Wcan. and you just forget about it If you're a positive thinker, you'll do real well Despite the hardships, Daggett called tho* transplant the most marvelous thing that s ever happened to me and said that if his body rejected theorgan, he would probably get another transplantNot all kidnev disease pa tients are so resilient Although we trv to supportto Kl Faso for a baseball game They were arrested They didn't have their IDs with them,” Mrs Yanaga said Kor a man like my father, being thrown in jail hurt him worse than tiemg physically flogged ”Then the Tashiro familyfound its produce boycotted (ur livelihood w as our faKm produce ourlahor.” Mrs Yanaga said It was a family product To not !«• able to sell one season meant a year's lov.in wadi's“1 staved in a slate ol eonhigWPrsion, Mrs Yanaga said (in the one hand, my parents were treated like that here unable to walk alone on the streetsAnd on tfit* other hand, my bus band. Harry was in the ser\ice lighting in Italy with flu* t S Army 's 142nd Go Koi Brokermunit, made up ot Japanese Americans **Kven though Tashiro was tooold, it was not unusual tot MrsYanaga to receive t rail fromthe Selective Service hoard inthese people and motivate them to go back on the * kidney hemodialysis* machine or have another transplant in some jm tients the despair is so extreme that they re not able to acceptthat.” said Dr Hichard Weil III, one of tour physicians con ducting ftie study published t«* day in the Journal of the American Medical Assm lafionIn the same t'-sue New \ ork medical researchers concluded the psychological toll on kidney disease sufferers was apparentl the same whether patients get transplants or rely ondialysistit the eight suicides, sevenhad faded transplants The eighth a 26 year old womanwith a perfectly functioning transplant, shot herself fivemonths alter the operationWed said the outlook ha^ tin proved for kidney transplant patients During a two-year period ending in March. H4 p.*tients were studied and gf» percent of them survived None ofthem was driven to suicidetown to please come take him home Her fat hr went there repeatedly to try to volunteerfor military dutyMy father had no more sons to offer lor w ar service, so tie offered himself as prool ol fitsloyalty to the I S,” MrsYanaga said My sister Kumi Ishizawa was a pharmicist and she was a WAC My fatherwanted tit serveThe Tashiro family also could not understand the internmentt»l thousands of JapaneseXmericans in the name of na tiotial security I'he Tashiros cscajied internment liecuuseTashiro had Iwen a farmer allhis life and was known throughout the areaMrs Yanaga said she has heard government offieials say the camps were not that badand were not concentration campsI I leg to ddter with them,”Mrs Yanaga said They werejust like* * oiufMf rat ion campsThc*\ witc* old ( t t' Uinaeks like the tar racks that the government was using lor lt;»er man POYVs JapaneseAmericans were k«*pt in these same kinds ot places and theywere not war criminalsAnd the hostility did not end with the war Mr* Yanaga saidIn 1941, meetings were held inside the Dona Ana County i ourthouse to tin v e Mrs Yanaga s land taken and to have her deportedsaid it w as ignorance at the time but itow I say it was misunderstanding. MrsYanaga sardshe -aid ttu*re was a growingfear aliens were going to infiltrate the county and take itover St**.*, there were mas-meetings and demonstrations♦Mrs Yanaga. who Naught herland in l'U7 was known as Suet»ecaus# tier first grade teachercould * at pronounce her real name » Tsuyuko But Tsuyuko aj»j»e red on all legal documents It was a foreignname ,oid i? frightened peopleshe nurd“| could not attend ttu* meetings in the courthouse,Mrs Yanaga said * My attarneys nitCH was tlt;«» unsate The situation was setthsl when people realized MrsYanaga wa a I i citizen and there was in* tuisis tor deporting her or conliscating her family'spropertywhat was happening to themMv father and brother wentKidney transplant patientshave high suicide rate;b (AP*
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Clovis News Journal
Clovis, New Mexico, US
Sun, Jul 03, 1983
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