Part 2: Healing
A memorial in the desert… Rev. Michael Yoshii delivered words of reflection and inspiration.
A Christian prayer; a Shinto purification and Buddhist chant; the soaring strains of “Rock of Ages,” in English and in Japanese.
Finally, at the site where Mr. Wakasa had fallen, and where the Issei residents of Topaz were forbidden from holding a memorial or raising a monument, we offered paper flowers like the ones offered 80 years ago.
