There’s a good article in the 
Seattle P-I today about Fumiko Hayashida, who in March of 1942, was loaded up along with 225 other folks from Bainbridge Island, Washington – and transported to the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. At 98 years old, Hayashida is now the oldest living Japanese-American from the island who was incarcerated. It just happened that a P-I photographer got a photo of her – a photo that became an iconic image of the Japanese relocation during the Second World War.
According to the article, “The Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League will honor the 98-year-old Beacon Hill resident on Saturday [today] for raising awareness about the wholesale denial of civil rights to a group of about 110,000 people.
The Bainbridge Island-born Hayashida has testified before Congress about her internment and spoken to students and people at conferences nationwide.
“There’s no use crying about the past,” the soft-spoken woman said…”
Read the full article in the January 23, 2008 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.