the ability to identify problems within society and ones own community is quite easy.

YAMAMOTORafu Staff WriterNisei Memorial VFW Post 1961 held its Memorial Day service on May 26 at the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institutes Nisei Veterans Memorial Hall.Payne attended the event and was recognized.

Attendees posted miniature flags onto a display in memory of friends and family members.which also has monuments to those lost in World War II.with four receiving the Medal of Honor … I would like to honor those Sanseis that made the ultimate sacrifice to a country that so ill-treated their Nisei and Issei families during World War II.

Other attendees posted flags in memory of friends and family members.senior pastor at Gardena Valley Baptist Church.

After showing a video about Sansei servicemen in Vietnam.

Air Medal and National Defense Service Medal.The reunion is part of a years-long and unlikely journey towards creating a memorial at a location that remains the only detention camp in California that has nothing to signify its use to incarcerate 4.

there will be a launch of an ongoing educational program with local schools and the Tulare Historical Museum to ensure the monument serves its purpose of educating the community and visitors.we are striving to hold America to its promise of liberty and justice for all so that something like this may never happen again.

061 Japanese Americans were forcibly detained there during its operation from April to September of 1942.Project under way to create memorial at camp site.