Bulletins displaying Sperls face and crimes were posted on signs

Tonais family was first incarcerated at the Santa Anita Assembly Center before being moved to the Amache concentration camp in Colorado.(Photo by Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee)The Manzanar Commitee mourns the passing of former Amache incarceree Minoru Min Tonai of Woodland Hills on Sept.

and I saw Min slowly making his way down to where I was.I remember telling him that it wasnt safe.Well certainly miss his wit and penetrating analysis.

the Japanese American Cultural Community Center.My fondest memory of Min was during the Katari program when we went to the reservoir at Manzanar.

He was always willing to answer any questions that students had.

Min was a unique community leader.careful not to touch the metal with my bare hands.

Grandpa?A loud rattle came from the loft at the very back of the store.It felt alive — it wanted to move.

But my grandfather shook his head subtly.he cut the distinct figure of a wizened community elder — someone who had been in the neighborhood for so long it was difficult to tell where Little Tokyo ended and my grandfather began.