now the site of Bunka-Do gift shop.

The traumatic experience of the race-based mass removal and incarceration of all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast led to fractures in our psyches.?The Grateful Crane Ensemble.

we will delve into the fissures of racism and injustice.Generational break-out groups will follow.survivor of the WWII prison camps and author of The Poet and The Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love.

He will discuss the Irei Project: The National Monument for WWII Japanese American Incarceration.and the celebration of healing practices that have emerged from our communities today.

Rather than something to hide and disguise.

and the healing and repair that are both needed and ongoing.The names can be found at the Veterans Memorial Court next to the Japanese American Cutural and Community Center in Little Tokyo.

I learned that over half of this group were Sansei Vietnam-era veterans that meet for breakfast the first of every month at Kings Hawaiian restaurant and bakery in Torrance.I would especially like to celebrate the surviving Sanseis that served during the Vietnam War who never received a thank-you or a welcome home.

VIP guests included Gardena City Councilmembers Paulette Francis and Rodney Tanaka; and Ken Hayashi of the Veterans Memorial Court Alliance and the Japanese American Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee.the retiring of the colors by the Gardena High School AJROTC Color Guard.