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Toras Fisk is thanked for his service after the 2021 Veterans Day ceremony at the Alaska Islands and Ocean Center on Nov. 11. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

‘I’m just so lucky’

By Sarah Knapp • February 24, 2022 1:30 am

Longtime Homer resident and World War II veteran Toras Fisk turns 100.

Courtesy Photo / Molly Pressler Collection
Japanese-Americans interned in Alaska in World War II are shown in this photo at a camp in New Mexico where they endured the majority of the war.

Research into interned Japanese-Americans in Alaska receives grant...

By Michael S. Lockett • September 22, 2021 3:30 pm

104 Japanese-Americans were interned from Alaska at the outset of WWII.

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