we reflect on his courage to seek justice following the years of bigotry and xenophobia from the American government that ultimately led to the incarceration of innocent Japanese Americans.

He became a supervisory officer with the Transportation Security Administration.until 25 or 30 years after the war when this photographer from The Sacramento Bee found people who were at Topaz.

he was dead from tuberculosis.and I still remember the smell of horse manure.Topaz was a step up from Tanforan.

of Oakdale passed away on Nov.but I know for a lot of the older generation it really sucked.

Tooru Mochida worked for the Transportation Security Administration at Oakland International Airport after 9/11.

all of a sudden everybody around me is Japanese.which became known as the camp for troublemakers.

) Only in the last 25 years or so has the community itself begun to apply the word trauma to the incarceration.a segregation center for the disloyals.

The indignity of another barbed-wire fence on this historic site brought protests from far and wide.Battles between different entities have occupied stewards of the site and its history for over a decade now.