Internment camp survivor set to receive diploma after 62 years
Thursday, June 10, 2004 at 01:42PM
TheSpook
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Like thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II, Kitahara -
then Okumura - along with her parents, four brothers and three sisters,
was rounded up and hauled away on a train to a barren internment camp,
forced to leave behind her belongings and her life. [more]
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