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News Release: BO T. SAKAGUCHI. Family # 3751. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 11-7-3. Mother and father came to the United States in 1913. We were vegetable farmers. I had three older brothers and three older sisters who were medical and dental students and attending universities. The children were all born in California.
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News Release: BILL SUSUMU TAKETA. Family # 8584. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 30-5-1. My father came to California as a young man about 1913 from Hiroshima, Japan to join his father who was settled in the Florin area. My mother, also from Hiroshima, came to California about 1923. I was born in Florin on Sept. 27...
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News Release: MOMO NAGANO. Family # 1046. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 6-11-5. My father, Kiro Nagano, came to the United States in 1918 from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, and returned there to marry my mother in 1920. They left Japan the day after the wedding. My father leased land in Los Angeles and, in his 20s, hired...
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News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Three individuals were sentenced today and last week to 58 months in prison combined for engaging in a straw purchasing conspiracy.
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News Release: WILBUR SATO. Family # 4655. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 9-1-2 and 29-8-1. My father came to the US in the early 1900’s when he was a teen. His father was in the nursery business in Pasadena and produced one of the first floral floats for the Rose Parade. His father was also an early pioneer photographer...
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News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to be director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA):
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News Release: ROBERT KATSUMASA OKAZAKI. Prisoner of War # 1444. POW Camp 33, Petawawa, Ontario, Canada. POW Camp 101, Angler, Ontario, Canada. My father Nobutaro Okazaki and my mother Natsu Koyama, both were born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. At 19, Nobutaro immigrated to Victoria, British Columbia. He worked as a houseboy...
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News Release: General Description. Splash! What’s that? You look but only see water rings. Upon closer inspection there’s a cluster of black and white eggs at the shallow edge of a pond. You hear five faint chucking sounds and a low pitched grating noise. There it is! It’s a frog sitting on a partially submerged rock.
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News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Alabama Homesteader. Place of Birth: North Carolina. Date of Birth: Between 1939 and 1842. Date of Death: unknown. Place of Burial: unknown. Willis Kyles was 38 when enumerated on the 1880 Census. He was living in Uchee, Russell County, Alabama, and was listed as a farmer born in...
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News Release: Dear Senator Durbin: I applaud your decision to hold a hearing on “the civil rights implications when racial profiling and ‘stand your ground’ laws mix."[1]. Over the last year, the Trayvon Martin shooting and the acquittal of his admitted killer have reignited a national conversation about the significant...
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News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a Democratic staff memo that refutes Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s claims that the White House directed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to disable...
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News Release: LAWRENCE KIYOSHI SHINODA. Family # 20983. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 29-7-4. Written by Grace Shinoda Nakamura, Larry’s sister. My father, Kiyoshi Shinoda, came to the USA from Japan when he was 12, and my mother, Hide Watanabe, was one. Our father died when I was three and my sister Grace was six.
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News Release: Who are you?. What is your favorite color?. What is the name of your best friend?. What is the farthest place from home you've ever visited?. What is one crazy thing you can do that no one else can?. All these things make up the you that is you - an amazing, fabulous, beautiful person. For this activity...
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News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Charles M. Thomas, 26, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced today for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and for violating the terms of his federal supervised release, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. sentenced Thomas to 46 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release on the firearms charge.
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News Release: El Sistema Nacional de Senderos invita a su familia a completar los Programas de Guardaparques Juveniles creados por los senderos nacionales. Al explorar estos senderos panorámicos e históricos nacionales a través del Programa Junior Ranger, los jóvenes aprenderán sobre algunos de los senderos que componen...
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News Release: San Juan Island National Historical Park, Washington.
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News Release: HIKOJI TAKEUCHI. Family # 9096. Camps: Manzanar, CA (Address: 20-14-4) and Tule Lake, CA. Written using Hikoji Takeuchi’s oral history interviews. I was born on Dec. 18, 1921 in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. My parents were from Hiroshima, Japan. I had an older brother and sister who lived in Japan...
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News Release: SAM H. ONO. Family # 2964. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 35-12-2. Most of us relating our experience in these ID cards are Nisei or the first native-born Americans of Japanese ancestry. We are all about the same age, therefore, most of our parents had entered the United States at about the same time and...
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News Release: GRACE SHINODA NAKAMURA. Family # 2083. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 29-7-4. My father, Kiyoshi, came to the USA when he was 12. My father graduated form UC Berkeley as an electrical engineer. My mother Hide Watanabe came with her mother and father, who was a librarian, when she was one. My mother graduated...
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News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: We are writing to request that you withdraw the unnecessary and misguided subpoena you issued last week to compel U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park to testify before the Committee in response to your unfounded accusations that he lied to the American people about the status...