I learned that being a Japanese American woman means to act with courage.

was incarcerated at Manzanar and instilled a strong sense of social justice in her son.Mauch was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade blast.

this baseball project brings together many aspects of his life.A marker at Manzanar shows the location of the former baseball field.Among them were members of the Lodi JACL Templars.

He also helped in the res-toration of Center Field.A field at Kofu Park in Lodi is named in his honor.

Much work will need to be completed in advance of the day.

Were going to this place of sadness and pain and do something joyful and wonderful.do as John Wooden used to say.

These are observations that may not be really new to many of the older readers of The Rafu Shimpo.Only God knows our expiration date.

just visiting and documenting the family history? Would you take inventory of your life victories and life failures and make peace with yourself?Could you look back with no regrets that despite some failures you lived a life of integrity?It is interesting that some people who are at deaths door dont die with a sense of closure.One of my biology teachers once drew a geological timeline of Earths history.