On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. They destroyed seven American battleships and 121 aircraft and killed 2,400 people. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt sent a telegram to let everyone know what was happening and stated: "Washington, Dec. 7 (AP) - President Roosevelt said in a statement today that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from the air. The attack by the Japanese also affected all naval and military “activities” on the island of Oahu.” The president's brief statement was read to reporters by Stephen Early, presidential secretary further details were immediately provided. At the time of the White House announcement, Japanese ambassadors Kiurisabora Nomura and Saburo Kurusu were at the State Department.” After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, America felt it could not trust Japanese Americans, that's why they invented the Japanese internment camps to protect themselves. February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed order 9066; Ten internment camps were created where more than 110,000 Japanese Americans would also be transferred. The camps were set up in blocks containing fourteen barracks. The temperature of the fields varied; most were found in deserts. The meals contained little food. The jobs were really bad, low-paying jobs. Children were expected to go to school and learn. The Japanese were taken from their homes, loaded onto buses and traveled to the camps. The fields were fenced. Each fenced camp was set up in blocks, the blocks containing fourteen barracks, a mess hall and a recreation hall on the opposite side. the outside. The interior contained the ironing room, the laundry room, and the men's and women's restrooms... in the middle of a paper fence... which we were told not to go near. And I remember the lookout towers that had machine guns aimed at us. And I remember the search light following me when I ran at night from our shack to the latrine," he said. “But a child is an extraordinarily adaptable person. All this became normal for me.” He and his family were sent in a maximum security camp in California after receiving a questionnaire form called The Loyalty Questionnaire. The first liberated Japanese were not released until 1944, and no one was allowed to return home until the end of the war nothing to call home when they left the camps, their homes and occupations gone. Judge Frank Murphy (a politician) called it “one of the most radical and complete deprivations of constitutional rights in the history of this nation in the absence of the. martial law”..”
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