Day of Remembrance, February 19, 2017

Today is the 75th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066 that forcibly removed American citizens of Japanese heritage from their homes and sent them to concentration camps because of their ancestors nationality. Over 110,000 Japanese-Americans had their civil rights violated and humanity belittled because of fearmongering and ignorance. This never should have happened, and we cannot allow ignorance and unfounded inflammatory statements to allow such actions again.

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Cemetery shrine, Manzanar National Historic Site, 2011.

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