Moving Forward from Community Secrets
This event is in the past
Saturday, March 4, 2023, 2 pm
Old NW Natural Building
Old Town-Chinatown (Portland)
This is an in-person event
Free
All Ages
Led by scholar Linda Tamura and hosted by the Japanese American Museum of Oregon (JAMO), this presentation will center the Nisei soldiers whose names were vindictively erased from the Hood River honor roll in 1944. In the wake of a recent apology issued by the local American Legion and the donation of hundreds of historical letters protesting the removal of the names, Tamura will discuss the shrouded history of Hood River's Japanese American community alongside Post commander Carl Casey and vice commander Dennis Leonard of the American Legion Post 22. (A selection of the letters can be viewed at JAMO as part of their exhibition A Long Road to Travel: The Service of Japanese Americans During World War II.)