Answer to previous post and more...

As per the photo "monument" in my previous post...

From The Manzanar cemetery site is marked by a monument that was built by internee stone mason Ryozo Kado in 1943.[36] An inscription in Japanese on the front of the monument reads, 慰靈塔 (Soul Consoling Tower).[34] The inscription on the back reads "Erected by the Manzanar Japanese" on the left and "August 1943" on the right.[34] Today, the monument is often draped in strings of origami, and sometimes has offerings of personal items left by survivors and visitors. The National Park Service periodically itemizes and collects these items.

--ref. www.answers.com

...and more information from:

http://www.nps.gov/manz/

I have now returned from another visit there. Here is a photo. Click on it to see it better:

The picture is of the newly reconstructed auditorium. The temperature that Thursday afternoon, at that moment, was about 108 degrees F. The clouds forming in the afternoon sky over the 14,000 ft. skyline were to form again the next day, thus resulting in many lightning strikes and several large fires in the surrounding area. they even closed the highway.

In the green, me, on Friday, while on the Mt. Whitney trail with one of my daughters. We are at around 9,000 ft. It was my first time there in about 28 years or so.

I used to look like this about 28 years ago, as seen at about 8, 700 ft. in the San Gabriel mountains...

--Dan