The article discusses the lasting impact of WWII internment camps on Japanese Americans, focusing on personal accounts from survivors like Flora Ninomiya and Saburo Fukuda. Ninomiya recalls her childhood innocence overshadowed by her family's internment at Camp Amache due to Executive Order 9066. Fukuda reflects on the trauma of his father's arrest. The remembrance culminates in a call for acknowledging this painful legacy, especially in light of contemporary political discourse, which evokes fears reminiscent of the past. Community leaders stress the importance of remembering these collective experiences as they seek justice and recognition.
I was a child and so I feel that I was protected by my mother, my two older sisters. My older sister at the time was 10 years old and so she knew that something was really not right.
It was a very confusing period for me not understanding what was going on and from that point on we didn't see father for three years.
It's an important time for our community. It's a time when we gather together to remember our collective history. Especially the dark days that our families and our communities faced during World War 2.
During his campaign, President Trump vowed to invoke the same act to target migrant criminal networks operating in the U.S. This has brought back the history many Japanese Americans experienced.
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