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Article: A mother helps fight gun violence; Woman's son, an exchange student from Japan, was fatally shot 10 years ago in Louisiana.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 5, 2002
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Byline: Chuck Haga; Staff Writer
Northfield, Minn. -- Mieko Hattori stood before hundreds of young people in the high school auditorium in Northfield on Friday and said that she had dreamed many years ago of coming from Japan to study in the United States.
She didn't make it, but her son did.
"I was very happy my son came to America," she said in soft, halting English.
Then she knelt to add her name to the many hundreds inscribed on two large banners - names of Northfield students who have pledged to work against gun violence.
Yoshi Hattori was 16 in October 1992, an exchange student in Louisiana, when he approached the wrong ...