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His initial happiness is dulled when a group of neighbors try to force him out, first by burning down a shed and throwing rocks through windows, then by the burning down of their house. The day after their house is torched, they receive a telegram informing them of the death of their son in combat in Italy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written by T/5 James Milton Meade,\n  <i>\n   Home in the West\n  </i>\n  first appeared in the March 10, 1945 issue of\n  <i>\n   The Amphibian\n  </i>\n  , a publication of the Army Service Forces Training Center at Camp Gordon Johnson, Florida, and was reprinted by in the\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Pacific_Citizen_(newspaper)\" title=\"Pacific Citizen (newspaper)\">\n    Pacific Citizen\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n  Might also like \"Case History\" by Bradford Smith; \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Nakamura Comes Home (short story)/\" title=\"Nakamura Comes Home (short story)\">\n   Nakamura Comes Home\n  </a>\n  \" by Henry H. Hayden; \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Service Flags (short story)/\" title=\"The Service Flags (short story)\">\n   The Service Flags\n  </a>\n  \" by Bill Hosokawa\n </p>\n</div>\n","moreinfo":"<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n  <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n   For More Information\n  </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n  <p>\n   Meade, James Milton. \"\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-17-15/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Home in the West.\n   </a>\n   \"\n   <i>\n    Pacific Citizen\n   </i>\n   , Apr. 14, 1945, 5.\n  </p>\n  <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20250625170148\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.028 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 218/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 4236/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 883/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n  <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   11.257      1 -total\n 28.36%    3.192      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 18.65%    2.099      1 Template:Published\n 18.30%    2.060      1 Template:Databox-Articles\n 16.86%    1.898      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 16.31%    1.836      1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n  <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:4121-0!canonical and timestamp 20250625170147 and revision id 28879\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"}