April 18, 2008

A Ceremony to Help Heal 'the Tragic Legacy of 1942'

By PETER MONAGHAN

When Midori Funatake came here to the University of Oregon in 1940, she never suspected that she would not get her degree until Sunday, April 6, 2008. She had set out from home, on the outskirts of Portland, 100 miles to the north, with a student's traditional motivation: "It was far enough away from home that I could feel independent," recalls Mrs. Midori Komoto, as she later became.

Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during her second year. Fellow students and

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