CA: Former internee saving his past

SJ Mercury News ^ | 2/19/03 | Cecilia Kang

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As Jimi Yamaichi kicked up the dust along the barbed-wire fence, the long-buried memories of his years at the Tulelake internment camp rose in a flood of emotion.

It had taken more than four decades for the San Jose native to muster the courage to revisit the site where his family was imprisoned during World War II.

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Tule Lake was the one "relocation center" from which residents were not free to leave at any time --- it was the place where hardcore pro-Japan folks were sent. I note that Jimmie was released at age 24 in 1946. This means that when he was "drafted" in 1944, as all draft age elibibles were, he refused to go....