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Japanese-Americans still haunted by memories of internment campsBy Alex RodriguezDaily Herald Staff WriterHiro Mayeda was only 16 in April 1942, but he was old enough to feel the shame of being forced to live where the U.S. government was about to send his family.For the next four months, Mayeda, his parents Sho and Yayi, and his brother and sister would live inside a horse stall at Santa Anita racetrack in southern California. Inside, the dirt floor had been coveredwith asphalt and whitewashed,but the smell of manure wasstill in the air.The wooden stall walls separated the Mayeda family fromthe Japanese-American familyin the next living unit. Each family was given bed frames, and it was up to them to find straw to fill the mattress casings they were issued.Mayeda’s father owned several hundred acres of crop landSee BATTLE on Page 4Hiroshi Mayeda was assigned this ID card in the camp.e;ci(1dFat;tlt;tlatitlsalioJtlitli
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Arlington Heights Daily Herald Suburban Chicago
Arlington Heights, Illinois, US
Sun, Dec 08, 1991
Page 97
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