On February 19, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066.
Our own citizens were now to be treated as common criminals simply because of their race.
On March 22, 1942 the first group of Japanese Americans arrive at Manzanar.
61 years later my family paid a visit to one of the saddest locations in America.
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