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 -
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Jack Kunitomi, 101, of Los Angeles grew up in Little Tokyo and was confined in the Manzanar and Heart Mountain camps before being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944. He and his new bride, Masa Fujioka Kunitomi, played on baseball teams in Manzanar. Their eldest son, Dale, was born in Heart Mountain. With his wife and son still behind barbed wire, he entered the intensive language training of the classified Military Intelligence Service....