# @jonendow on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BNu2YQMAFYa
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- **Posted:** 2016-12-07T22:04:36.000+00:00

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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

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. Kunitomi served under Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines and Tokyo. In wartime, Kunitomi and other MIS soldiers translated captured Japanese documents and interrogated prisoners. After the war, they facilitated the U.S. occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1952 as translators and interpreters. He and other Nisei veterans have been recognized at many events, including the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington, D.C. in 2011, which honored Japanese Americans who served in the MIS, 100thInfantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team - Rafu Shimpo

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