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Chiyoko Ouachita from Fullerton via Los Angeles, was 14 years old As she worried about her future. The camp was locked down. No one in or out, no movement after dark. Frank Arikawa was the first of 20 Manzanar internees who would be killed while serving with the 442 in the European theater during World War Two. Except for the barbed wire and guard towers, Manzanar had become, like so many other small towns across America, plucked hesitantly on the second hand, Sitar George Harrison's vaguely Indian melody marked the first use of a sitar on a rock and roll record. Though the Kinks See My Friends, released almost six months previous, is generally recognized as the first raga inspired rock song, it's Melody was played on guitar. This April marks 12 years since the tiny central African country of Rwanda experienced one of the most brutal and intensive killing campaigns in human history. O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie above thy deep and dreamless sleep. The silent stars go by. After a few moments, she hears the car start up again and drive away shaken. She has a hard time concentrating on her work. She catches her image in a small mirror on her desk. Horrified, she stares at her tightly cropped hair. She lets out a deep sigh. Her eyes wander along this stacked file cabinets that line the three walls, most drawers air stuffed too full to close. Her eyes fix on a drawer labeled Cohen mother and Father Little Judy Herman, all of them gone just like that.