Brett was thought to have been blown away by a tornado.

The men picking strawberries in Oxnard and Orange County fields are not serial killers.The undocumented people are being arrested and deported because theyre murderers and drug dealers? No.

first-generation Japanese American men were among the first to be rounded up by the FBI.Theyre not here for easy money.Now imagine what their life is like in their country of origin to travel hundreds of miles.

Terminal Island represented what my grandfather Gengoro was hoping to find when he immigrated here from Japan … An opportunity to create a new life for himself.Because of racist fear of Japanese espionage.

with this monument behind me being a testament to their dedication and their resilience.

He would not see his family again for another three years …Today.The National Humanities Alliance.

ability — among other fields of power—amplify the traumatic aspects of vulnerability.)Our times resonate with the wartime hysteria that gave rise to the incarceration of Japanese Americans and the Cold War hysteria that fostered McCarthyism.

and of course the elimination of research that could help us address these challenging issues.though I cannot confirm that officially.