Today commemorates the 75th year of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Sadly more than 2,000 soldiers and sailors died in the attack. People living in the U.S. of Japanese ancestry were also adversely affected. Two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. This resulted in the relocation of approximately 120,000 people, many of whom were American citizens, to one of 10 internment camps located across the country - history.com Lawson Sakai was born in Los Angeles on October 27, 1923. He graduated from Montebello High School, attended Compton College in Los Angeles, and Mesa College in Colorado. On December 8, 1941 (the day after Pearl Harbor), he tried to enlist in the military service and was rejected based on a government classification that he was an enemy alien. His family evacuated to Colorado in 1942. In March 1943, enlistment opportunities opened up fo...