70th Anniversary of Japanese-American Internment in 2012-- Part 1

From the February 19, 2012, San Leandro Patch " Today Marks 70th Anniversary of Japanese Internment in World War II" by Dixie Jordan and Tom Abate. //// Today, this is seen largely as a miscarriage of justice. //// On February 19, 1942, two months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the evacuation of persons of Japanese descent from the West Coast. // More than 100,000 of them, many from the East Bay area, were held in ten remote camps far away from the coast. Some were held for as many as three years. Two-thirds of them were American citizens. //// More to Come. --GreGen