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Sachi Kaneshiro was born Sachi Tamaki in Covina, a city in Los Angeles County in California. She attended UCLA where she received a B.A. in International Relations. She was incarcerated in the Poston Relocation Center between May 1942 and January 1943, and in Heart Mountain Relocation Center from January through May 1943. She worked for 28 years as a Social Worker for Los Angeles County and the State of Hawaii before retiring in 1984. She took a creative writing class where she wrote this essay to meet an assignment on reaction to a news item.
Updated September 2007