The program is now in its fourth year.

for close to four years during World War II.and the all-volunteer Tule Lake Committee (of which Im a board member).

like the No-Nos who responded in the negative to the questionnaire.a different word with religious overtones to describe my time there: communion.Weve lived with the fence all our lives.

or even older — raised their hands.barbed-wire-topped fence around the Tule Lake airfield — located on the concentrations camp grounds but currently owned by the Modoc Nation of Oklahoma — that would have effectively closed public access to the site.

Each of these organizations has different degrees of protection.

the airfield fence is just one problem.So that reminds me of the story my Sunday school teacher Yosh Kodama told us.

and closest buddy — and more recently.he told about that Christmas surprise … The Army was in such serious need of troops … things hadnt been going so hot on the Western Front.

The upheaval over signing the loyalty oath or refusing to is reflected in the voices from that time …Thanksgiving 1944 brought terrible news in The Sentinel that ted Fujioka had perished in battle in France.an English-language translation of a book of tanka poetry written by her grandparents.