We have learned that not all local former internees of the WW II incarceration camps were able to participate in the flag-signing project when brought here last September.

Therefore we are glad to announce another opportunity coming on March 20. from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Buddhist Temple of San Diego.

SUCCESSFUL FIRST PHASE: The Flag-Signing Project met its first goal with the display of many 48-star flags signed by surviving internees of the relocation camps. On January 30 2022, the flags were part of the observance of Fred Korematsu Day at the Japanese-American Museum of San Jose (JAMSJ).

ONTO THE NEXT PHASE: The next goal is to display the growing number of signed flags at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), JAMSJ, and the Korematsu Institute in San Francisco, according to a January 2022 article in The Rafu Shimpo. The article notes that the driver of the project, the Hon. Judge Johnny Gogo, Superior Court, Santa Clara County, has visited over 25 cities to gather signatures, including his visit to San Diego in September 2021. He has also visited all 10 major internment camps with the signed flags. (Judge Gogo will not be in person at the new San Diego event, but has hand-delivered the flag here for this second chance at signing.) Other visits are planned to yet more cities. Flags have now been signed by over a thousand camp survivors.

For questions about the March 20th event at BTSD, please contact the temple at

info@btsd.net, call 619-239-0896 or contact LuAnn Lee at lulee7@cox.net.

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