The Japanese bombs that sunk the U.S.S. West Virginia, U.S.S. Arizona, and pushed America into WWII also radically changed the lives of Japanese Americans living in the Puget Sound.
December 7, 1941, "a date that will live in infamy." These words will never be forgotten, not by a stunned America, or by those with a Japanese ancestry. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This act based on ethnicity allowed the military to evade the c...
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