My MIL turned 75 in January, and she was ecstatic to hear that there was a Minè Okubo retrospective at the Smithsonian because of the family connection.
That got us started planning a 75th birthday bash in D.C. Then MIL had a mini stroke and couldn't travel, At dropped out because of heartbreak, and Big A was very sick this week...
But some of us made it to this beautiful exhibition on the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki and it was a poignant reminder of how much the past is with us. Minè Okubo worked for the U.S. government and her brother was a member of the U.S. military, but she and the rest of her Japanese-American family were nevertheless forcibly incarcerated in the internment camps after Pearl Harbor.
(I've been feeling so insecure, I carried my passport along with my Real ID for travel this time.)
Pic: Nu, Big A, and Aunt R at the exhibition.
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I'm so glad you made it to this exhibit!!
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