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- From: lakutaga@ssf-sys.DHL.COM (Lawrence Akutagawa)
- Subject: Re: 50th Anniversary of Japanese Amer. Internment
- Reply-To: lakutaga@lionhart.ssf-sys.DHL.COM (Lawrence Akutagawa)
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:31:54 GMT
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- A quick aside: The presidential proclamation (declaration? statute?) which
- allowed the detention back in 1942 remained active until the Ford
- presidency, well into the 1970's.
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- And let us not forget that a number of Aleutian islanders were similarly
- detained, though not in as large numbers as the Japanese Americans were.
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- Among those to be remembered for their part in WWII are those Japanese
- Americans who fought in the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Infantry
- Regiment in Italy and eastern France as well as those who fought in the
- Pacific as interpreters. Many of them were recruited from the very
- detention camps in which they were incarcerated. One of Ansel Adam's
- enduring (but little known) photographs is that of a Medal of Honor
- taken at Manzanar, a detention camp in the eastern Sierras, awarded to
- such a person.
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