Mamoru and Dora made Mitsuru a welcoming place and never minded our laughter and crowding around one of the booths in the back.

By MIKEY HIRANO CULROSSRAFU SPORTS EDITORThe war and all the problems of the camp were adult stuff.Their lone defeat came in a last-second play in their final game of 1944.

There are still people who hear about this for the very first time; I find that shocking.My parents rarely spoke about it.I recognize I dont have a drop of Japanese blood running through my body.

Courtesy NFL Media / Cactus ProductionsFormer NFL star Scott Fujita.He shared stories about the wind blowing through the barracks that were made of just wood and tarpaper.

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which was inspired by Bradford Pearsons book The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football.the Kazuo Masuda Memorial VFW Post 3670 decided to sponsor a Miss Orange County Nisei Queen in the Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Little Tokyo.

from left: Karen Karasawa Eto (1979); Karen Takeguma Woo (1977); Sandra Fukushima Ninomiya (1989); Denise Higuchi Bjorn (1990); Marissa Ishii Yamashita (2008); Dominique Mashburn (2014); Alice Amano (2018); Caitlyn Sasaki (2024).represent Orange County in many Japanese American events in Southern California.

An In Memoriam table honored VFW queens Carol Kunitsugu Itatani (1965) and Beverly Hayashida Chien (1968).The queens gave presentations on My Favorite Photo During My Reign and posed for group photos.