Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #4 - Ghost Thoughts

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number four. Today I went to visit my Japanese grandparents' grave. It's in a tiny Anglican graveyard in a small francophone town in the Eastern Townships of Québec. They were not Anglican but there wasn't much choice for their final resting place. The story of how they got there is the story of displacement of Japanese and Japanese Canadians after the Second World War. I think about how they are as isolated in death as they were in life. Their Japanese bones surrounded by white ghosts.