That War
On February 19, 1942, soon after the beginning of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This was an evacuation order that commenced the round-up of Americans of Japanese heritage. These people were transported to one of ten internment camps in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. They lost all of their possessions. My grandfather, Henry Ebihara, was one of these Japanese Americans, relocated to Topaz, Utah.
Roosevelt's executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was heightened by the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. More than two thirds of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States. Within these camps leadership positions were only offered to the American-born Japanese people.
Some people, like my grandpa, refused to accept......
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