Source: Appeal-Democrat
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/church-90278-nakamura-new.html
Hatsue Nakamura missed New Year's Day services at the Marysville Buddhist Church in 1943, 1944, and 1945.
Those were the years she and 120,000 other Japanese-Americans were held in World War II internment camps.
But on Friday morning, Nakamura, 89, sat near the center of her beloved church — site of so many of her earliest memories — and said prayers for the new year.
The start of 2010, said the Rev. Patti Oshita of Sacramento, offers a chance "to find ways to better ourselves, or to find ways to make our lives even more meaningful."
Nakamura and the 20 or so other congregants who came to this plain white building for the annual celebration chanted the juseige — a prayer for awakening — with Oshita.
They clapped their hands twice, as is the custom, and Nakamura smiled.