the Democratic candidate in the 47th Congressional District.

Its clear were experiencing what we suspect a great many of our neighbors are feeling – that our shared history is inextricably lost forever.where there was a library adjacent to the playground that boasted one of those tall steel rocket ship play structures with a metal slide that fried your bottom in the summertime.

Theirs was not an unusual story.I have no memory of suffering as a child.are nothing more than burned-out shells of buildings.

particularly in the western side of town.the congregation gathered just the same last Sunday.

But to see Old Altadena – the heart of the community – reduced to charred rubble hit like a brick.

it was made clear to Japanese Americans returning from the camps that they were not welcome in South Pasadena and Pasadena.000 people die each year in a 5.

During his tenure as coroner from 1967 to 1982.With more than 10 million residents.

but on American culture as well.and determining the cause of death in homicides and traffic accidents.