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Hello, Ghost Family. Welcome to Family Ghosts.

When we tell stories on this show, a lot of times they're unique to the families that experienced them.

Your grandmothers who turned out to be jewel smugglers, your fathers who died young and left their sons only shaving kits to navigate the world.

Your moms who may or may not have committed arson.

But sometimes we encounter families that are part of much bigger stories.

Families that get caught in one of those intense historical riptides where large swaths of society are swept up and reordered without warning,

leaving generations of ghosts in their wake.

Sometimes this happens to a few hundred people in one particular region, like the members of the love family from earlier this season.

Other times, the tide crashes into an entire ethnic group, like Michaela's story about her grandmother in the Holocaust last season,

or Mira's story from earlier this season about her great uncle navigating a culture of religious stratification in India.

And this week we bring you another one of those stories about a family searching for answers in the wake of one of the most shameful episodes in American history,

the Japanese American prison camps where over a hundred thousand people were held in the 1940s.

Recently, our producers Jennifer and Jacob placed a call to the World War II Japanese American internment museum in Arkansas.

I can just barely hear either one of y'all.

And I've got people in here and I'm not going to try to hover.

The conversation quickly took a surprising turn.

Now what is this pertaining to?

Well, we're hoping to have like a little bit of a conversation with you about what's left of drum.

10, nothing?

Nothing at all.

Well, when you government does not stupid they cover it up. I mean, excuse me.

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