In Person tickets to this program include admission to JANM for Saturday, March 4, 2023. Pricing reflects general museum admission pricing. Learn more about visiting JANM at janm.org/visit.
Join the Boy Scouts of Heart Mountain in an intergenerational conversation on coming of age in a World War II concentration camp. The event will highlight a short film by Yuka Murakami that captured a moment at the 2019 Heart Mountain Camp pilgrimage opening ceremony where 89-year-old Harumi “Bacon” Sakatani, who was a teenage internee and former Boy Scout during World War II, is adamant about raising the U.S. flag alongside his fellow Boy Scouts. Sakatani will be joined at the program by other Heart Mountain Boy Scouts, George Iseri, Tak Hoshizaki, Frank Murakami, and Nori Uyematsu. They will be interviewed by current Boy Scouts and descendants of WWI concentration camp survivors, Kenji and Seiji Guinto. This program will also be a Gathering of Eagles, providing an opportunity for the community of Boy Scouts to come together in community and conversation.
Photo: Heart Mountain Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps, ca. 1943. Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Ike. T Hatchimonji (94.149.3)
