How to remember the Japanese incarceration, 80 years later

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Happy Saturday. When I was in between jobs in 2020, I drove to Mammoth on the U.S. 395. Then, a sign caught my eye: Manzanar National Historic Site.

I had heard of Manzanar. I had vague idea of what it was, but I didn't know it was right there.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - FEB. 18, 2022. Richard Murakami, 90, was incarcerated along with about 120,000 other people of Japanese descent during WWII. They were imprisoned by executive order in internment camps throughout the U.S. He was 10 years old at the time. Here, Murakami is pictured with photographs of life in the camps that are on display at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. (Luis Sinco / Los...
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How to remember the Japanese incarceration, 80 years later
As Japanese Americans mourn the passing of a generation, they are trying to preserve the memory
1:55 PM · Feb 19, 2022

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-19/how-to-remember-the-japanese-incarceration-80-years-later

Akemi Leung knew her grandfather had been incarcerated at Heart Mountain in Wyoming during World War II.

But he never spoke much about it.

Only when she read and watched a video of his testimony at a congressional commission hearing did she learn more about what he suffered as one of more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry forced to leave their homes and live in concentration camps.

“I just knew him to be a quiet person who liked to observe more than talk,” Leung said. “Seeing the testimony helped illustrate how he was a leader.”

The hearing happened decades ago. By the time she watched the tape in 2017, her grandfather, Hiroshi Kamei, had already died.

With the 80th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which authorized the incarceration of Japanese Americans as a supposed threat to national security, the ranks of survivors are thinning.

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[Raine]

1. A very shameful chapter in American history

it must never be forgotten.

[MichMan]

2. Wonder how Japanese-American students feel when attending schools named after FDR ?