By Mary Alice Murphy
Monday evening, four Japanese-Americans, who were held in internment camps as children during World War II, recounted their experiences and the projects they plan to make sure it doesn't happen again. The presentation was in Light Hall on the Western New Mexico University campus.
Dr. Nikki Nojima Louis, former child prisoner of Minidoka camp and daughter of a prisoner in two New Mexico camps, spoke during the presentations. Her father, as an Issei, or first generation Japanese-American, in 1942, during the beginning of the United States involvement in World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was sent first to the internment camp in Lordsburg.