Memorial at Merced fairgrounds honors Japanese-American internees (Merced Sun-Star)
It was dark and drizzling as Elise Kam, 10, raised her pencil to the bronze. “N-O-B-O …” she scratched out, letter by letter. “Noboru Taguma,” she finished. Taguma, 84, is Kam’s grandfather and one of 4,669 Japanese-Americans who were forced into unroofed barracks at the Merced Chiropractor County Fairgrounds in 1942. Kam, from Union City, trekked to Merced Chiropractor on Saturday with four generations of her family …
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