. >> reporter: yamani spent 10 months of his time in a camp stockade.punishment for a camp riot in 1943. to this day yomani denies any involvement in the violence. but after the war yomani and his sister who campaigned for his release were deported to japan. both were american citizens born in hawaii. >> well he came back because the american government has finally acknowledged the fact an injustice was done to an american citizen. that bought him back. >> reporter: some of the camp survivors say if they ever get redress money they want to use it to restore the tully camp to a museum. the kids playing on the stone monument don't really know what happened here. the elderly who so long remained silent now want them to know. >> it's a memory, a tribute, to honor what happened. not because it was right but to honor the people who came. >> that guy told me that they were shipped here during the war. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> reporter: and what do you think about that? >> it's sad. >> yeah. >> at a small cemetery at clemoth falls, a memorial service for 12 who die