In Remembrance of Those Lost in 2009
from Rafu Shimpo online
Jack Yoshihara who was a member of the Oregon State University football team, passed away on April 20. He was 87.
Yoshihara was a sophomore reserve on the OSU team when the team was headed to the Rose Bowl at the end of 1941. In the hysteria following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Yoshihara was not allowed to go to the game, where OSU defeated second-ranked Duke. Instead he was sent to an assembly center and eventually the Minidoka internment camp.
The Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham, N.C. for fear of another attack, and Yoshihara was banned because he was considered a security risk.
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