and regulars know they can help themselves to whatever is in the fridge.

Many held in these sites — erected in as little as a month — describe them as far worse than the 10 long-term concentration camps.Also on the program will be a report on the current Mission Oak High School student project to create a memorial at the former Tulare Assembly Center.

who is producing a film on their ongoing efforts.Because many incarcerees have passed.Former detainees are encouraged to attend the program and will be given an opportunity to offer their impressions of what life was like in these makeshift centers.

it was important to capture some of their first-hand impressions before these hastily constructed sites are forgotten.000 Americans of Japanese ancestry as the 10 permanent camps were being built.

for the immediate incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast.

including simple and more elaborate memorials built by local communities to mark nearly all of them.participate in the annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Japanese American National War Memorial Court in Little Tokyo.

He was posthumously awarded the Combat Medic Badge and the Bronze Star Medal.including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A dedication ceremony is planned for the summer of 2026.Nakamura (1981-2003)The Santa Fe Springs City Council on June 17 voted unanimously to change the name of the citys Aquatic Center to the Paul T.