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Lori Matsumura visits the cemetery at the Manzanar National Historic Site near Independence, Calif., Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. Matsumura's father and his family were among the more than 10,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II. Her grandfather, Giichi Matsumura, died when he left the camp to explore the nearby high Sierra in 1945. Hikers discovered his mountainside grave and unearthed the skeleton in 2019, leading authorities to retrieve the bones and return them to the Matsumura family. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

Down from mountain, Japanese internee’s remains return home

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

Lilah Matsumura, 11, prays for for her great-grandfather, Giichi Matsumura, during a memorial service at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Giichi Matsumura, who died in the Sierra Nevada on a fishing trip while he was at the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, was reburied in the same plot with his wife 75 years later after his remains were unearthed from a mountainside grave. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Lost to mountain, Japanese internee’s bones return home

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Inyo County Sheriff's Office shows Mount Williamson, where authorities say the skeletal remains of a person were discovered on Oct. 7, 2019, beneath the state's second-highest peak. The skeleton found by hikers this fall near California's second-highest peak was identified Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, as a Japanese American artist Giichi Matsumura, who had left the Manzanar internment camp to paint in the mountains in the waning days of World War II. (Inyo County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: Sierra skeleton ID’d as ‘ghost of Manzanar’

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press