Former Japanese-American students graduate (U. of Wash) after a 66-year wait

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Former Japanese-American students graduate UW after a 66-year wait

The graduation ceremony in the University of Washington's Kane Hall on Sunday had all the signs of the typical rite of passage: "Pomp and Circumstance" played for the crowd, family members cried and the graduates accepted their diplomas with smiles.

But the UW students honored Sunday weren't like any in the university's history.

Many hadn't even attended the UW in 66 years.

The ceremony honored the 450 Japanese-American students who had to leave the university in 1942 to relocate to internment camps after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The full story can be read at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/363654_degree19.html

And lest we forget: The United States had its own concentration camps during WW II.