Trapped on the Wrong Side of History

In 1939, Mary Kimoto Tomita, a farm girl from outside Modesto, CA took a trip to Japan to connect with the culture of her ancestors. She got on a ship to come back home to America on December 5th, 1941. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor two days later, the ship turned around and Mary was stranded, trapped in the middle of a bloody war between the country of her birth and the country of her heritage. This story – told through Mary’s personal reminiscences and her letters from the time — is a rare glimpse at a piece of the WWII experience that is not explored.