meaning a place we hold in our hearts.

Dad would sometimes talk about the number of surgeries that Richard had to endure.Your dad was the most decent man I ever knew.

Gwen Muranaka is Rafu senior editor and can be contacted gwen@rafu.There wast enough explosive force to propel him or Todd away from the plane and he struck the horizontal stabilizer.getting a promotion to train on the newest bomber.

then you’d never see another war.We got the airplane under control momentarily.

Not a chance with Uncle Richard.

gaman tsuyoi — suffering the unbearable.He died in Manzanar in 1942 at the tender age of 4; I was born in Manzanar in 1944 about 16 months after he passed away.

On one of those occasions my mother hinted generally that Takeshi had a heart problem and the difficult conditions at Manzanar affected his health and he grew weaker and weaker and could never recover.I never felt any grief over his death although I did know how his illness and death affected my mother and I did grieve for her pain at the loss of her young son.

Boy – that is windy! and we both laughed.I actually feel some grief and loss for the brother I never knew and as I approach my own eventual demise sometime in the future.