Those who couldnt attend even reached out to see if they could still get a Suehiro souvenir.

When I was growing up and becoming more curious about life.She remembered the day when there was a wind warning in the camp and no one was allowed to be outside; this meant she could not take her daily walk to the hospital to visit with Takeshi.

She said it was very windy and the gusts were so powerful they could blow pebbles and small rocks along the ground such that if it struck you on the ankle bone it was very painful.I was talking to my mother and we started to talk about Manzanar and she shared some new recollections about life there.She described how people on a windy day who were in line for the mess hall would have to jump up in the air to let the rolling rocks pass under their feet! She said sometimes the people in the queue looked like pistons going up and down and I remember telling her.

I began to wonder how he might have been had he grown up as one of my older brothers and it made me feel a sadness and melancholy – and I rarely ever feel melancholy.My heart ached for my mother as I thought about my own daughter and how it would feel to have lost her at the age of 4.

Bill Watanabe writes from Silverlake near downtown Los Angeles and can be contacted at billwatanabe@earthlink.

my two older brothers and I would take turns to visit my mother and check in on her.most famously as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek.

a nonprofit organization providing musical engagement.Shelter Partnership will honor Gupta for his role as founder and artistic director of Street Symphony.

Vijays work with Street Symphony is so.The gala will be held Saturday.