05.05.08
Bainbridge survivors of Japanese internment are dying, and memorial not yet built
Original members of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American community was said to be dying…
Clarence Moriwaki, head of the committee on the proposal of building a memorial said: “Time is not our friend on this endeavor,”…
They are proposing for memorial at Eagle Harbor, for those Japanese Americans who died at the island. The said memorial will be a part of the Minidoka Internment National Monument in Southern Idaho. The second part of the memorial will be a 276-foot story wall and each foot represents every Japanese American living on Bainbridge Island, the wall will have everyone’s name on it with a short family background.