August 1944 Woody is drafted.
November 1944 Woody is called up for active duty in Germany.
Winter 1944 Only 6,000 internees remain at Manzanar.
January 1945 Internees begin returning to homes and farms.
June 1945 The Manzanar high school publishes a second yearbook, Valediction 1945. The camp's schools close.
August 6, 1945 The war ends following the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Early October, 1945 The Wakatsukis depart Manzanar, leaving 2,000 internees behind. They settle in Cabrillo Homes in Long Beach.
December 1, 1945 Internment camps close.
1951 Ko moves his family to a strawberry farm in San Jose.
1957 Ko dies.
1965 Mama Wakatsuki dies.
1966 Jeanne Houston, still emotionally affected by internment, cannot make herself speak to a Caucasian woman who worked as a Manzanar photographer.
April 1972 Jeanne and James Houston drive their three children from Santa Cruz to Manzanar.
