former Assemblymember Steven Choi.

Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency.Miharas family returned home to San Francisco.

Mihara is a frequent guest lecturer at national history conferences.Mihara has been a board member of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation.As the first Japanese American to be selected.

000 Japanese Americans evicted from their homes following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.Mihara chose to become active in public education about Japanese American relocation and internment and in the preservation of the Heart Mountain historic prison site.

and worked for more than four decades as a rocket scientist.

We are so grateful for the opportunity to hear his story and reflect on the lessons it holds for us all.We will be the ones to carry this culture into the future.

We decided on writing a childrens book with a corresponding website — centering on the horrors of the Japanese American concentration camps of World War II.People in current times need to always remember this time in our history — to ensure that it never happens again.

He spent the first year of his life there.Something that is often hard to grasp is the detail that many of these people were loyal American citizens.