Sam Mihara
Sam Mihara é um ex-internado no campo de Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Ele nasceu e foi criado em São Francisco. Entrando em Heart Mountain aos 9 anos, Sam tem lembranças vívidas dos acontecimentos antes, durante e depois do acampamento. Após a guerra, a família de Sam voltou para São Francisco. Ele se formou em engenharia pela UC Berkeley e UCLA. Sam se aposentou após uma carreira de 42 anos na Boeing Company, onde foi cientista de foguetes e diretor de marketing. Ele tem duas filhas e dois netos.
Se você estiver interessado em suas histórias, entre em contato com Sam em SMIHARA@socal.rr.com
Atualizado em janeiro de 2012
Stories from This Author
Memories of Heart Mountain - Part 2
20 de Janeiro de 2012 • Sam Mihara
Read part 1 >>I eventually graduated from high school and went to UC Berkeley and then UCLA graduate school, majoring in aeronautical engineering and business. I was hired by Boeing (formerly Douglas Aircraft) and enjoyed a very happy and rewarding 42-year career. Part of my work resulted in the launches of communications satellites and the GPS constellation being placed into orbit. Along the way, I was married, had two daughters and two grandkids. For over 60 years since leaving Heart …
Memories of Heart Mountain - Part 1
13 de Janeiro de 2012 • Sam Mihara
I remember the spring of 1942. I had just turned 9 years old and the armed United States military came to our neighborhood in San Francisco. The guards escorted my father, mother, brother, me, and all others of Japanese ethnicity in the area out of our homes and placed us into buses. My grandparents and other relatives were also on the buses. No one explained where they were taking us, but we found ourselves at the Los Angeles County fairgrounds …
