Comments on: Former Internee Receives Diploma At Los Angeles’ Belmont High School http://blog.manzanarcommittee.org/2009/07/22/former-internee-receives-diploma-posthumously-at-los-angeles-belmont-high-school/ The Official Blog of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jenni http://blog.manzanarcommittee.org/2009/07/22/former-internee-receives-diploma-posthumously-at-los-angeles-belmont-high-school/#comment-601 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:40:29 +0000 http://blog.manzanarcommittee.org/?p=786#comment-601 great article, teeny! brought tears to my eyes.

]]> By: Susanne La Faver http://blog.manzanarcommittee.org/2009/07/22/former-internee-receives-diploma-posthumously-at-los-angeles-belmont-high-school/#comment-599 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:41:12 +0000 http://blog.manzanarcommittee.org/?p=786#comment-599 Wow. Beautiful article. Thank you.

]]> By: Darrell Kunitomi http://blog.manzanarcommittee.org/2009/07/22/former-internee-receives-diploma-posthumously-at-los-angeles-belmont-high-school/#comment-602 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:55:20 +0000 http://blog.manzanarcommittee.org/?p=786#comment-602 Cool. Sad in a way, but the mills grind slowly sometimes. My second-oldest sis is at right, Colleen Miyano. She did a great job behind the scenes, and in making a speech. Like all the kids in our fam, we’re proud graduates of good old Belmont High.

In 1942, on the heels of the Pearl Harbor disaster, just before the Evacuation, that dark and unknowing time when the loyal JA community was backed against a wall, the student body defended their selection of a student body president. He was a Nisei boy.

And later, another Hilltopper (Sentinels is the official mascot name) would make his choice. He went with his pals to camp, he went to Manzanar—Ralph Lazo. He graduated from Manzanar High, and is easy to spot in the class graduation photo.

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