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The book weighs 25 pounds and is more than 1,000 pages long. It is roughly the size of the Gutenberg Bible.
Instead of the word of God, it contains names — 125,284 names.
A few are living. Most are dead. All were incarcerated behind barbed wire during World War II, their only crime their Japanese ancestry.
June Aochi Berk stepped forward. Her name was in the thick tome.
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