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DESCRIPTION:&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oregonnikkei.org/exhibits.htm#exhibitpr
 ograms&quot;&gt;Coming Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; speaker series:\n\n&lt;strong&gt;When Heroes Weren&#x27;
 t Welcome Home\n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lecture by Linda Tamura\, followed by a quest
 ion and answer session and book signing&lt;/em&gt;\n\nTuesday\, March 19\, 2013\
 , 7:00 p.m.\n &lt;em&gt;Free\, open to the public&lt;/em&gt;\n\nWhen a group of World 
 War II war heroes returned to their hometown\, storeowners refused to serv
 e them. Community leaders had removed their names from a local war memoria
 l and proposed a Constitutional amendment to deny them of their citizenshi
 p. The racist hometown homecoming of these Japanese American veterans gain
 ed national notoriety. Linda Tamura&#x27;s talk\, based on her book&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;N
 isei Soldiers Break Their Silence&lt;/em&gt;\, highlights events of the past and
  present. Tamura is a professor of education at Willamette University and 
 is the author of&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japane
 se Settlers in Oregon&#x27;s Hood River Valley&lt;/em&gt;. This program will be held 
 at PSU\, Smith Memorial Student Union\, Room 238.\n\n&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coming Ho
 me: Voices of Return and Resettlement\, 1945-1965&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp\;is a
 n exhibit that traces the reestablishment of the Japanese American communi
 ty in Oregon after World War II and examines the injustices of war-time re
 location. The&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Coming Home&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp\;exhibition has been woven f
 rom personal stories of return and resettlement by Nikkei &amp;mdash\; men\, w
 omen\, and children of Japanese descent &amp;mdash\; forced from their Oregon 
 farms and homes and incarcerated as &quot;enemies&quot; during World War II. Most we
 re American citizens. Many had lost everything. Determination and memories
  of place\, family and community guided them home. Visit&amp;nbsp\;&lt;a href=&quot;ht
 tp://www.oregonnikkei.org/exhibits.htm#exhibit&quot;&gt;www.oregonnikkei.org&lt;/a&gt;&amp;n
 bsp\;to learn more about&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Coming Home&lt;/em&gt;.\n\nThis exhibition an
 d programming are made possible in part by the Oregon Heritage Commission 
 and Oregon Parks and Recreation Department\; Oregon Humanities (OH)\, a st
 atewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the Nationa
 l Endowment for the Humanities\, which funds OH&#x27;s grant program\; Portland
  State University\, Center for Japanese Studies\; University of Oregon\; S
 amuel Naito\; and&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Friends of Oregon Nikkei Endowment&lt;/em&gt;.\n\nOr
 egon Nikkei Legacy Center\n121 NW 2nd Avenue\nPortland\, OR &amp;nbsp\;97209\n
 503-224-1458\n&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oregonnikkei.org/&quot;&gt;www.oregonnikkei.org&lt;
 /a&gt;
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SUMMARY:Coming Home: Lecture by Linda Tamura
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