Only What We Could Carry Mother's Day William Hohri

William Hohri

this documentary is the firsthand account of a 15-year-old thrust into the turmoil of World War II and is a poignant reminder of the indignity of incarceration and the tragedy of war

Set against the backdrop of the 1960s

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Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar

Only What We Could Carry Mother's Day William HohriBy Lawson Fusao Inada , Patricia Wakida , William Hohri. In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country. Through personal documents, art, and propaganda, Only What We Could Carry expresses through words, art, and haunting