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Len Zinberg,\n \n Welcome Home!\n \n was first published in\n \n Yank\n \n , a weekly magazine published by the U.S. Army and reprinted in the\n \n\n Pacific Citizen\n \n\n in 1945.", "rg_rgmediatype": [ "short stories" ], "mediatype_label": "Short Stories", "mediatype_icon": "fa-file-text", "rg_interestlevel": [ "Grades 9-12", "Adult" ], "rg_theme": [ "Evils of racism", "Injustice", "Totalitarianism" ], "rg_availability": [ "Widely available" ], "categories": [ { "title": "Arts" } ], "topics": [], "authors": [ { "title": "Brian Niiya", "json": "https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/authors/Brian%20Niiya/?format=api", "html": "https://resourceguide.densho.org/authors/Brian%20Niiya/?format=api" } ], "sources": [], "title": "Welcome Home! (short story)", "published_rg": true, "modified": "2018-05-31T15:04:12", "databoxes": { "rgdatabox-Core": { "rgmediatype": [ "short stories" ], "title": [ "Welcome Home!" ], "creators": [ "Len Zinberg" ], "interestlevel": [ "Grades 9-12", "Adult" ], "readinglevel": [], "guidedreadinglevel": [], "lexile": [], "theme": [ "Evils of racism", "Injustice", "Totalitarianism" ], "genre": [], "pov": [ "Told from perspective of two returning soldiers" ], "relatedevents": [], "availability": [ "Widely available" ], "freewebversion": [ "Yes" ], "primarysecondary": [], "hasteachingaids": [ "No" ], "warnings": [], "denshotopic": [], "geography": [], "chronology": [ "1940s" ], "facility": [] }, "databox-Articles": { "author": [ "Len Zinberg" ], "title": [ "Welcome Home!" ], "pubname": [], "pubdate": [ "1945" ], "pubdetails": [], "doi": [], "website": [ "<a class=\"external free\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-17/ddr-pc-17-41-master-04bc1bdd10-a.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-17/ddr-pc-17-41-master-04bc1bdd10-a.jpg</a>" ] } }, "rg_title": [ "Welcome Home!" ], "rg_creators": [ "Len Zinberg" ], "rg_pov": [ "Told from perspective of two returning soldiers" ], "rg_freewebversion": [ "Yes" ], "rg_chronology": [ "1940s" ], "rg_hasteachingaids": [ "No" ], "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:short stories;\nTitle:Welcome Home!;\nCreators:Len Zinberg;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Evils of racism; Injustice; Totalitarianism;\nGenre:;\nPoV:Told from perspective of two returning soldiers;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:1940s;\nFacility:;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Articles\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Author:Len Zinberg;\nTitle:Welcome Home!;\nPubName:;\nPubDate:1945;\nPubDetails:;\nDOI:;\nWebsite:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-17/ddr-pc-17-41-master-04bc1bdd10-a.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-17/ddr-pc-17-41-master-04bc1bdd10-a.jpg\n </a>\n ;\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n Short story that contrasts the reception of two returning soldiers to their homes after serving overseas. Two soldiers meet on a train and talk about what they look forward to upon returning home. The first, presumably white, gets off the train to a warm welcome by parents, a girlfriend and the family pet. The second, a Japanese American has no one waiting for him, since his family is still incarcerated in an Arizona concentration camp. He is ignored or greeted coldly by the locals in his hometown and when he gets to his family home, finds that it has been vandalized and painted with racist epithets. Authored by Sgt. Len Zinberg,\n <i>\n Welcome Home!\n </i>\n was first published in\n <i>\n Yank\n </i>\n , a weekly magazine published by the U.S. Army and reprinted 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 in 1945.\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 \"\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Case History (short story)/\" title=\"Case History (short story)\">\n Case History\n </a>\n \" 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/Homecoming (short story)/\" title=\"Homecoming (short story)\">\n Homecoming\n </a>\n \" by Toshio Mori\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 Zinberg, Len. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-17-41/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Welcome Home!\n </a>\n \"\n <i>\n Pacific Citizen, Oct. 13, 1945, 5.\n </i>\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153717\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.014 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.019 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 215/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 3803/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 654/2097152 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% 7.869 1 -total\n 30.70% 2.416 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 18.34% 1.443 1 Template:Databox-Articles\n 16.56% 1.303 1 Template:Published\n 16.46% 1.295 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 15.77% 1.241 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:4122-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153717 and revision id 28930\n -->\n </div>\n</div>" }
