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"With a stroke of a presidential pen, the lives of Izumi Taniguchi, Minoru
Tajii, Homei Iseyama and Peggy Yorita irreparably changed on Feb. 19, 1942. On
that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued
Executive Order 9066, which
set in motion their wartime incarceration along with other people of Japanese
ancestry who were forcibly removed from their homes in parts of California,
Oregon, Washington and Arizona.
To cope with their fear, anger and loss in the turbulent times, they would have
to dig deep into their emotional reservoirs of resolve and ingenuity.
Without bringing charges against them or providing any evidence of disloyalty,
the U.S. government detained legal Japanese immigrants and their American-born
descendants in desolate inland locations during and after World War II, simply
because of their ethnicity. Nearly 127,000 people of Japanese ancestry were
incarcerated between 1942 and 1947, according to Duncan Ryȗken Williams,
director of The Irei Project, which is compiling a comprehensive list of those
detained. My grandparents, parents and their families were among them.
As I describe in my book “When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese
American Incarceration during World War II,” they boarded livestock trucks and
World War I-era trains guarded by armed U.S. soldiers for destinations that
were not disclosed to them. They could only take what they could carry and what
they had within themselves."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
