In the aftermath of the reunion/party/teach-in/booksigning at the Japanese-American National Museum, we have received lots of calls, e-mails and letters. Here are two of them.
It was great to see you again and finally meet your wife Barbara. Jean and I really had a great time. For me, it was extremely rewarding because I was able to renew acquaintance with a lot of friends and relatives from my early Lompoc years. My sister May kept telling me stories about my father catching steelhead trout in the Santa Ynez River. I started to doubt that he ever caught any steelhead because among her voluminous pictorial documentation of Lompoc I didn't see one picture of anyone catching a steelhead. I don't recall the woman's name but May informed me she had a picture of her father and my father holding up the steelhead they caught in the Santa Ynez River. I looked at the picture and sure enough both were holding up steelhead and they were huge. To me the picture is priceless and I asked her to send me a copy.
I wasn't able to locate the letter from the Department of Fish and Games to the hardware store regarding my father's fishing license. I did find a letter from the Department of Interior to the Department of Fish and Games requesting them to inform Mr Perrozi (owner of the hardware store) that it is okay to issue a fishing license to my father. -- George Murakami
It’s been fun being a small part of this journey with you and my mom. I appreciated the chance to share a thank-you to the Niseis who were in attendance. If my mom decides to go to the reunion next year, we’ll be sure to look you up. Take care, Mike Mori
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