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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 09 > Japanese-American receives diploma, 67 years after war

Japanese-American receives diploma, 67 years after war

By Paige Dickerson / The Bulletin
June 9, 2009

CLALLAM BAY, Wash. — Sixty-seven years ago, an 18-year-old Taky Kimura was preparing for his high school graduation from Clallam Bay School.

He never made it to the ceremony.

At about noon on that June day in 1942, he and his family of nine — all Japanese-Americans....

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