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Japanese Americans who were born or who were very young in the detention centers and concentration camps are now in their late seventies and early eighties. They are the final generation of camp survivors, the final generation who can speak directly from the experience. And yet they are also, because they were newborn, one, two, three years old, the generation of survivors least likely to remember. The survivors who remember most vividly and who are able to share what they remember, were still children, so their memories, filtered through their perspective as adults, now as elders, are the memories of children. We have entered a phase of historical remembrance that is reliant almost entirely upon the experiences and memories of children.