JEROME, Idaho– Behind the barbed cable, the little young boy pushed his ink-covered forefinger onto the mint-green departure card. And a photo was broken of his anxious face.
Paul Tomita was 4.
It was July 4, 1943. Independence Day at Minidoka, a camp in the substantial Idaho desert, where over 13,000 Japanese American males, females and kids were put behind bars throughout World War II as protection threats as a result of their origins.
The wallet-sized paper indicated the terrified young boy in the picture might leave after 11 months living in a confined barracks with his dad, mommy, 2 siblings and grandma.
Eight years later on, he returned with West Coast explorers that believe the life-altering wrong needs to be kept in mind. But currently one more federal government choice impends as a …