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The Pink Dress

In her play The Pink Dress, Sally Suto talked about the hardships and heart breaking experiences of leaving home and what the camps were like. The first issue she touched on was leaving home. Sally's family owned a shoe repair shop, that they had to leave behind. The FBI started to raid Japanese American's houses, looking for anything that would lead them to suspicions of their involvement with the bombing. The Japanese Americans were getting scared, so they had big bon fires to get rid of anything that tied them to Japan. Their bank accounts were frozen, so they couldn't get to any of their money for their needs of moving. When the Executive Order 9066 came out on Feb. 19, 1942m they had to pack their belongings and move out. The government said that if they moved inland they wouldn't go to the camps. So that's what they did. As some families tried to move inland, the state patrol of surrounding states would turn the cars back so they couldn't move......

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