"nidoto nai yoni - let it not happen again"
Last weekend in Bainbridge Island, Washington, hundreds gathered to dedicate a memorial wall commemorating the United States government's forced removal of Japanese American families from the island to internment camps during World War II:A Wall to Remember an Era's First Exiles.
Bainbridge was home to the very first group of Japanese Americans to be removed -- chosen as the government's "test run" for mass evacuations -- and was one of the few communities to welcome them back when the war was over. Of 277 forced off the island, 150 people returned. About 90 survive today, and 20 still live there:
On Saturday, Mr. Kitamoto - along with hundreds of others, including former prisoners, their families, Bainbridge residents and tourists - will reflect on that
