Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons

An installation by Marie Watt commemorating Northwest servicemen and -women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Taikiko Tsuchiya
1906–1977
Submitted by Robert Dozono

In a time in Japan when society and males decided everyone’s path, she made her own choices. She eloped to be married against others’ wishes. My wife was born when Takiko was 42, the same year her eldest daughter married and left for the United States at 19.