A WWII camp for Japanese Americans cost his father his sight and his grandfather his life. In Alaska, he explains why he still tells the story

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – At 9 years old, Sam Mihara filled his free hours in Wyoming the way a boy might: searching the ground for stone arrowheads and looking for rattlesnakes.

He did it as a prisoner of his own government.

“Barbed wire fence, guard towers, sentries with weapons, we were imprisoned,” Mihara said. “No question.”…