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A WWII descendant discovers the truth about her family
Forty-one natives of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands were taken to and imprisoned in Japan during World War II. One of whom was Theresa Deal's mother. For years, Theresa thought she understood her mother's wartime history but now she knows the truth.
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