and the various ways healing and repair are being expressed through the arts.

But for those like Uncle Richard.Bloodied and grievously wounded.

Hed jump in and out of his wheelchair and when we were going someplace he would put on his prosthetic legs and just go.Dad had passed away months before.even taking a trip across the country in a motor home to watch John Glenn fly on the space shuttle in 1998.

I think that experience as a child gave Richard his independent.000 have felt the added loneliness of a sort of exclusion by internees as well as feeling the wrath and the anger of the whites while outside.

Having received a precious gift is how I feel when I think of Uncle Richard and Aunt Teri.

he landed in a tree near where an off-duty sheriff was hanging laundry and heard the explosion.There will be a live forging event on the plaza as part of the festivities.

Having trained under the head appraisers at the Japanese Sword Museum (NBTHK).There will also be a display of original sword mountings from the Edo period.

Master blacksmiths Yu Kurosaki and Yoshimi Kato will be traveling from Echizen.He is a founding board member for the NBTHKs American Branch.