Lost to mountain, Japanese internee s bones return home
BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press
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1of27Lilah Matsumura, 11, prays for for her great-grandfather, Giichi Matsumura, during a memorial service at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Giichi Matsumura, who died in the Sierra Nevada on a fishing trip while he was at the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, was reburied in the same plot with his wife 75 years later after his remains were unearthed from a mountainside grave.Jae C. Hong/APShow MoreShow Less
2of27Lori Matsumura visits the cemetery at the Manzanar National Historic Site near Independence, Calif., Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. Matsumura s father and his family were among the more than 10,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II. Her grandfather, Giichi Matsumura, died when he left the camp to explore the nearby high Sierra in 1945. Hikers discovered his mountai
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