“I am a Manzanar baby — actually a Manzanar/Tule Lake baby due to the fact that almost immediately after I was born, our family moved from Manzanar to Tule Lake. I’m embarrassed to admit that it did not occur to me until fairly recently that if you said, “My family went from Manzanar to Tule Lake,” that meant something! Occasionally, after informing someone in the Nikkei community that you were at Manzanar and then went to Tule Lake, there would be a pause and a certain look of awareness on the face of the other person. You could sort of guess that they were thinking, “So you and your family was one of those!...” (rafu/2014/04/through-the-fire-so-youre-one-of-those-troublemakers/) Please note: the Tule Lake Pilgrimage for 2014 is full. For additional information, please visit the Tule Lake Committee’s website (tulelake.org/). For additional information on the Manzanar Pilgrimage, please visit the Manzanar Committee’s official blog (blog.manzanarcommittee.org/).
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:15:00 +0000
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