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 constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense. This order barred persons of Japanese ancestry who were living on the West Coast from living and working in certain locations. This traumatic upheaval resulted in 120,000 Japanese Americans being forced to leave their homes, business, schools, farms, jobs and in some cases family members, to be part of a mass evacuation and internment. Japanese Americans, most of them U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident......

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Title: A Date That Will Live In Infamy
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