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Criminal

The Magpie

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When Shigeru Yabu was 9 years old, he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain Internment Camp, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese American families. One day, Shigeru discovered a baby magpie that had fallen out of its nest. He named her Maggie. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we looked at each other, eye to eye.” Shigeru Yabu’s book is Hello Maggie! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.2

We were at a wedding and many of us kids were playing on the stairway in San Francisco, California.

0:41.0

And all of a sudden we saw a man walk him by with newspapers in his hand yelling, extra, extra, read over about it. Jeff's mom Pearl Harbor.

0:59.6

This is Shagoryabu. Everyone has always called him Shig. Today he's 89 years old. He was nine years old on December 7th,

1:09.0

1941 when he learned that the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service had attacked an American naval base in Hawaii.

1:17.0

We didn't know where Pearl Harbor was.

1:20.0

We didn't know what the situation was.

1:23.6

And so consequently, we went inside the house

1:29.6

at the wedding to inform them them the Japan bomb Pearl Harbor.

1:36.4

So when you when you went into the wedding to report this news do you remember the

1:42.3

look on your parents face do you remember

1:44.4

how the adults looked when they heard this news?

1:47.2

Well I don't think it was fearful it was just shocking. The Secretary of the U.S. Navy announced that the attack had been made possible by quote

1:58.0

the most effective fifth column work of the entire war. The idea of a fifth column refers to any group within a

2:06.8

larger group, secretly acting to undermine it. In this case, Americans were told that there were Japanese and Japanese Americans living in the US who had assisted or enabled the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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