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Article: WRITTEN IN SORROW: THOUGHTS OF THE INTERNED CHILDREN NEW CHAPTER IN JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 9, 2002
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Byline: REBEKAH DENN P-I reporter
The little bound autograph book with a black velvet spine was not what Yoon Pak had expected to find in the University of Washington archives.
But Pak, a graduate student at the time, opened the fragile pages, anyway, and entered the world of Seattle's Japanese American junior high school students in wartime.
With neatly looped penmanship or straggling scrawls, students at the former Washington Junior High School wrote farewell messages in the book to teacher Ella Evanson after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered people of Japanese ancestry - mostly American citizens - to internment camps in February ...