Addendum: Want to thank reader Ko Nishimura of San Jose (formerly of Pasadena).

we have lost five of our ASA members.some of the nuclear weapons we have are over 200 times more powerful than the ones used in Japan.

He remembers going to his high school and finding some younger kids in the pool.he and his brother saw the vapor trail of the B-29 that dropped the bomb.Japan surrendered to the Allies on Aug.

For the first year or nine months.Miho also remembered Nagasaki survivor Sumiteru Taniguchi.

He visited the United Nations.

the casualties with physical and personal emotional trauma.and California by Executive Order 9066 and into ten War Relocation Authority concentration camps in Arizona.

That story had helped me really grasp how difficult going to the concentration camps [was] for Japanese Americans.May this Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument remind us to be forever vigilant about defending our constitutional rights.

The powers of government must never again perpetrate an injustice against any group based solely on ethnicity.For her Girl Scout Gold Award project.