and we didnt want to be known as the people who left the airplane and the airplane crashed into the Pentagon or something.

were uprooted from their communities and unjustly incarcerated in federal concentration camps.She then enrolled in San Francisco State College.

000 others of Japanese descent.We have so much love for our extended family who traveled from afar.After her husband was elected to Congress.

passed away peacefully on July 3 after a sudden and quick bout with bone cancer.She immersed herself with the care-outreach program at Stephens Ministry with Hillside Covenant Church.

Im equally relieved shes not in pain anymore.

her true joy and excitement gravitated around her grandchildren.Shag had met Ted Morishita at Tulare Assembly Center.

were attending the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.By MARY UYEMATSU KAOTwo July babies now in their 99th year are celebrating their 90+ years of friendship —Shigeko Shag (Nishijima) Morishita and Elsie (Morita) Uyematsu Osajima.

Shag and Elsie! You still bring out the spunk in each other!Mary Uyematsu Kao has worked at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center since 1987.Shag and Ted lived in Cleveland and then Chicago.