For many, rules of mutual courtesy, respect and friendship still applied during wartime. A telegram had come the day before notifying the family Savas had been killed almost six weeks before. The postman has been busy delivering telegrams to many houses during the course of the battle. Casualties are heavy on Okinawa. This week alone telegrams have come to 20 Glendale families, he tells the Hidalgos.
Neighbors drop by.
They are a Japanese-American family the Hidalgos have come to know since moving from Mesa four years earlier. Although this Japanese family lives north of the evacuation line drawn up Grand Avenue and thus was not sent to the camps, many of their friends and neighbors were taken away. The father is the age of her own father. He knows what the Hidalgos are going through. He, too, has a son in the Army.