so Id go to the coal pile to get the coal and bring it back to the apartment to burn.

we are still developing the right vocabulary for recognizing the damage of Japanese American wartime incarceration.Because we do not have the right descriptors or labels.

most of these sites have faded into the landscape without visible historical markers; those that remain are at risk of closing off access to community pilgrimages.those who resisted in any way.for close to four years during World War II.

and the all-volunteer Tule Lake Committee (of which Im a board member).like the No-Nos who responded in the negative to the questionnaire.

a different word with religious overtones to describe my time there: communion.

Weve lived with the fence all our lives.tend to stay with us in memory.

He exchanged these gifts for chickens.My mother became a Gold Star mother.

to/3Tn6MCland in paperback at bookstores for $24.because they didnt have an income.