On Thursday, Mr. Sam Mihara, a second-generation Japanese American man who at age 9, was forced to move with his family to one of the 10 prison camps in the country that together housed over 120,000 west coast residents of Japanese ancestry during World War II, was a guest speaker at an assembly for all Greenwich High School sophomores.
Mr. Mihara was incarcerated with his family at a desolate prison camp in Wyoming for three years.
Today, he is a national speaker discussing mass imprisonment and shares his war-time experience with audiences at schools, colleges, libraries, museums, law schools, law firms, and many other organizations nationwide.
In his presentation, he discussed why only Japanese Americans were imprisoned, his experiences at prison camp, how he was released from camp, and the lessons he learned from the ordeal.
