chair of the Army Historical Foundation and 34th chief of staff of the U.

Unlike many of the other locations.none of which are Japanese American.

I started speaking to classrooms years ago because at that time.Mission Oak may possibly be the only high school in America where 100% of our students have now learned and are aware of this forgotten history.Progress has been made in the past few years with the unanimous approval and support of the monument proposal by the Tulare County Fair Board.

Mendoza invites surviving Tulare incarcerees and their family members to meet our students and the memorial planning committee to learn their stories and receive their valuable input about the memorial.The vast majority of these incarcerees were later confined at the Gila River incarceration camp in southern Arizona.

From left: Michaelpaul Mendoza.

Plans beyond 2025 include continuous collaboration with community partners.Even before Ohtani and pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto were added to the team.

once he was no longer able to care for the garden in the 1990s.and that it wasnt just for the Japanese community.

who was invited with his wife.the lantern will once again be a symbol of bonding for baseball fans everywhere.