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Article: STATUE OF ONE FOR MANY.(General News)(A depiction of Michi Yasui Ando will honor Japanese-Americans put into WWII camps)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2006
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Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard
The statue shows a Japanese-American girl reaching for a butterfly as she rests on her family's luggage, waiting for a train that will take the family to a wartime camp.
It could be any girl caught in the whirlwind of the forced internment of Japanese-Americans who lived along the West Coast during World War II.
Only now, it's a particular girl: Michi Yasui Ando.
Ando grew up on a family farm in Hood River. After graduating from high school as class salutatorian, she moved to Eugene to attend the University of Oregon. But she missed her graduation ceremony in 1942 because of an 8 p.m. curfew ...