Photos from 2011 Grand Opening of the HMWF Interpretive Learning Center!
— August 20, 2011
Photo by Sandy Sakatani Ross
Left to right: Barbed wire cutting officially opening the ILC. From left to right:
HMWF Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi; former Sect'y of Transportation Norman Mineta; Goodwill
Ambassadors Takashi Hoshizaki, LaDonna Zall and Bacon Sakatani; former U.S. Sen. Alan
Simpson and U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye. Photo by Sandy Sakatani Ross
Rev. Alfred Tsuyuki of Konko Church of Los Angeles performing a Shinto ritual and casting salt to purify and bless the ILC after wire-cutting.
Photo by Sandy Sakatani Ross
Hikers who made the climb with hiking sticks donated by the Makiyama
Family Grandchildren. Photo by Bacon Sakatani
Heart Mountain Climb Number 7!!
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
Hikers make their way along the trail.
Photo by Bacon Sakatani
Hikers make their way along the trail.
Sunday morning, 8-21-11, McDonald worker Vesta Whaley, Powell;
Allyson Nakamoto and John Esaki, both of JANM; Keiichi Ikeda.
Vesta approached me and said "...what happened was wrong...shameful past..."
Photo by Bacon Sakatani
Some of our many Registration volunteers.
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
Flag Raising: Former Boy Scout and internee, Bill Shishima, joins local Boy
Scouts to raise the American flag at the Dedication of the Heart Mountain
Interpretive Learning Center. Donald Yamamoto (not shown) also participated.
Photo by Bacon Sakatani
Observing the wire-cutting which signaled the official opening
of the ILC.
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
Drs. Chris Wehl and Nan Klein, Tom Brokaw, Dr. Melba Vasquez, and Jim Miller.
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
Tom Brokaw, Norman Mineta, Deni Mineta, Shirley Ann Higuchi, Alan
Simpson and Ann Simpson.
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
Captured audience at Pilgrimage Dinner.
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
Seidi Inouye Bennett singing "Don't Fence Me In."
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
Tom Brokaw pays tribute to the internees in his keynote
speech..
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
Set-up for the Saturday Banquet.
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, filmmaker Steven Okazaki, and Irene Hirano Inouye.
Photo by Don Tanguilig.
Board and Committee Members at end of Saturday Banquet.
Photo by Don Tanguilig.