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All
photographs and text from the Manzanar High Yearbook, "Our
World", unless otherwise noted. |
NOTE
For all of you who might come to enjoy these pages and rekindle
memories during a time of frustration, humiliation and abandon
by the country you called home, I pray that life and true friends
have multiplied back to you more than you could ever dream or
ask what prejudice robbed you of. It was one of the worst of
times, times of which you struggled to make the best. Individual
photographs have been randomly selected for these pages. If you
don't see your picture, it wasn't intentional. If you have lost
your yearbook or would like to acquire another copy of "Our
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Webmaster:
Ray DeLea |
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Portraits
of Manzanar High
Margaret Kamimura |
Minoru Kosaka |
Hiroko Iriye |
Katsuji Hazama |
Mariko Hatae |
Osamu Fujii |
Clara Fukushima |
Alice Araki |
In
years to come, when the war is over, and peace has returned to
the world, people may say to you "What was Manzanar?"
Then I hope you may say that Manzanar was a war time city that
sprang up from the sands of the desert of Inyo and returned to
desert with the end of the war. It was the largest city between
Los Angeles and Reno. It was a city serving a war time purpose
where people lived in peace and good will, where there was a
school system that taught young citizens the ideals of American
citizenship, where schools were of as high a rank as other California
schools, and where students dedicated their future lives to the
American way of living. I hop you may say that Manzanar was an
experience worth living, where the important realities of life
were made clear and where there was time and opportunity to prepare
for participation in the work of winning the peace based on tolerance,
understanding and good will. The graduates of Manzanar have a
great contribution to make in determining the kind of world that
is to come after the war.
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Ralph
P. Merritt,
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Keiji Eto |
Sadaye Akemoto |
Thomas Hirabara |
Yoshiye Okimoto |
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 This page was last updated on
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