... dignity at Manzanar. Jeanne Wakatsuki recounted her father's desperate grasping for whatever he had left of it. "I see it has a sad, home-made version of the samurai sword his great-great-grandfather carried in the land of Hiroshima when their swords were both their virtue and their burden." The cane is symbolic of Ko's dignity in that it once was true and held meaning but is now dwindled ... that she was Japanese to identify her or make any difference in how she was treated. In turn, she also rejected some of the things that made her unique. On the other hand, being what she was, diffe...

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