Resources for Book Discussion of Rewriting Marguerite at the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center, January 21, 2123
Minnesota’s Greatest Generation Oral History Project, Thomas Saylor; Minnesota Historical Society Oral History Collection, 2003 (Bud Nakasone’s story of his eyewitness account of December 7, 1941)
Armed With Language: Minnesota’s Secret WWII Language School – Twin Cities Public Television, May 2021 https://www.tpt.org/armed-with-language
“Righting a Wrong: Eighty Years Since the Order That Put Japanese Americans Behind Barbed Wire,” by Kimmy Tanaka and Krista Finstad Hanson, Minnesota Historical Society Magazine, Spring 2022 https://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/68/v68i01p006-011.pdf
Minnesota Connections: The WWII Military Intelligence School & Japanese American Community Stories of MISLS graduates as told by their adult children
Minnesota’s Remarkable Secret School of Language. “Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II,” curriculum and resource guide, Japanese American Citizens League (Twin Cities JACL); Curriculum guides for social studies teachers: https://www.tcjacl.org/education/mis/
Video tour of Historic Fort Snelling, narrated by Kimmy Tanaka: https://youtu.be/SMaYszBpyC8
MISLS Registry – list of all the graduates compiled by Seiki Oshiro and others: http://www.javadc.org/MISLS%20Registry%2002-02-03.pdf
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- The Registry – the film: https://www.amazon.com/Registry-Bill-Kubota/dp/B087RS9C2Z
- Q&A with the directors: https://youtu.be/nmJXI1FWw7c
- Day of Remembrance virtual event with Seiki Oshiro and Steve Ozone (director of The Registry): https://youtu.be/CPBw1iIkMj8
“Preserving a Largely Untold WWII Story” by Laura Yuen, Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 15, 2022 (features Seiki Oshiro’s work compiling a database for MISLS)
The Nisei Soldier: Historical Essays on World War II and the Korean War by Edwin “Bud” Nakasone
“Pearl Harbor as Seen by a Japanese Fighter Pilot,” dramatization by Bud Nakasone; YouTube WWII History Round Table, Dec. 9, 2013 (can be found by an Internet search of title)
“The Last Men Standing” by Richard Chin, Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 30, 2022 (interview of Minnesota veterans of WWII featuring Bud Nakasone)
Resources That Impacted Our Family’s Journey Through Eldercare
In every case, I wish I had visited these websites earlier:
- Alzheimer’s Association (with links to state organizations)
- Minnesota Department of Health (with links to nursing home surveys, report cards, complaints, regulations and licensure)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Official government site for Medicare
- Comparing nursing homes on the Medicare site
- ElderCare Rights Alliance
- University of Minnesota Center on Aging: www.coa.mn.edu/
- MN Aging – Senior LinkAge Line: www.mnaging.org Toll free 1-800 333-2433
- Office of Ombudsman for Long-Term Care: 651-431-2555/1-800-657-3591
Other Resources:
Kane, Robert L, M.D. and West, Joan, It Shouldn’t Be This Way:The Failure Of Long-Term Care, Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
Kane, Robert L, M.D. with Jeannine Ouellette, The Good Caregiver, A One-of-a-Kind Compassionate Resource for Anyone Caring for an Aging Loved One, Avery, 2011.
Byock, Ira, M.D., The Best Care Possible, A Physicians’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life, Avery, 2012.
A worthy film about the transformative use of music to unlock memories in people with dementia: Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory, 2014.
Meeting of the Minds Dementia Conference, sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association and held annually in March
Caring for a Person With Memory Loss Conference, offered each year (usually the Saturday after Memorial Day) at the University of Minnesota
Helpful advice from Elder Voice Family Advocates www.eldervoicefamilyadvocates.org
We suggest the following three steps to take if you suspect abuse or neglect:
- Call Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting Center (MAARC) – Toll free at 1-800-844-880-1574
- Call the local police where your loved one is residing and file a report
- Report the abuse or suspected abuse to your loved one’s primary care provider
JacLynn Herron 
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