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when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor our West Coast became a foot combat zone volume  we know that some of them were potentially dangerous most loyal but no one knew what would happen on this concentrated relation try to invade our Shores open half the movie what's Picture Tells how the mass migration was accomplished men women and children from their homes their shops in their Farms real consideration for the people involved  what's the pension was given to the problems of sabotage  San Francisco where's Apple Nevermore Japanese in Los Angeles Terraria Shipyard  oil lamps  Japanese fishermen had every opportunity Japanese farmers some of the first step the larger problem case of a Japanese invasion remove an back you soon friend in their new location so the program was quickly put on and protected bases major plans in accordance with army order  notices were posted they got in their own churches and schools in the Japanese themselves cheerfully handle the enormous paperwork involved in the migration Elations my preliminary medical examination government agencies businessman least sell or store their property now the actual migration got underway  the Army provide Advanced to transport household Plumbing  boxes to move the people to assembly centers this was a sacrifice  pounds of well as law play up and down the coast moving continue behind them left side for many years compounded left under guard  now they were taken to race tracks in Fairgrounds where the Army almost overnight at build Assembly Center I live here until New Pioneer community  San Anita race track suddenly became a community of about 17000 person residence of the new community set about developing a way of life is nearly normal as possible what is Catholic meanwhile in Arizona Utah Colorado Wyoming and elsewhere opportunity to work space in which to live relocation Center newcomers mucked about with some curiosity tell schools educate their children  Brown Physicians to precautions to guard against epidemics say open the dance Americanization classes for college students smile Lee family community meeting Minecraft on the health and care of these American children of Japanese descent your parents most of whom are American citizens conference rubber Supply at Parker the arrogation of desert lands many were permitted to enter private in particular now when picture is actually the prologue to a story that is yet to be told the full story will begin to unfold when all atoms are in productive work on are American citizens once again in the meantime we are setting a standard for the rest of the world in the violating the principles of Christian decency non example of influence please help me give a warm welcome to our guest of honor today we have you  play minutes have doctor sakaguchi Mister and Mister suetsugu we're really fortunate to have them come in today especially on this rainy day 7th graders we spent the month of December last year learning about the Japanese American internment and reading farewell to manzanar we start today I just want you to think about Wednesday imagine what your life would be like if you lost three years of your life when you were 10 years old and you lost happy years of your life let's have let's walk on R3 yes we have doctor Saga Gucci okay we are not mr. suits YouTube is an active volunteer parent here at Huntington Middle School his Ryan his son Ryan is in 6th grade and we need to stop again cuz me to drive really far to go pick up our stuff again $0.80 later we have doctor with seven years old when he was sent to turn are working 10 years old when he was sent to manzanar he also lived there for 3 years is relating to manzanar book and we have people who are here and it's really fortunate Tire thing up sitting on a chair the Thomas is fine what's pop again new summer series will think about maybe some questions we get to the question-and-answer explanation foxes and we're also light listeners what about his experiences first so the nice round of applause  good morning students of I need the middle former High School teacher and I've been retired for 25 years this month how many people according to Constitution Article 2 at age 35 I could have been president of States in 1942 because I look like the enemy I was treated like the enemy and I was in prison for three and a half years and what the government the war relocation Center I was because everyone baby birds with a concentration camp can I get in from swim set a reminder France in Europe stores with slave labor death camps slave labor deaths like this remember the saying that Barbara was bombed it was a Sunday rated over the radio I was in 5th grade  and I had a teacher named mrs. Clayton controversy was mean business place Iberville Bank  and from kindergarten to 4th grade I went to a segregated School variations in Burbank I was the only Japanese-American in my class wrong with one Chinese food and the rest were Mexicans in this was the time of the Dust Bowl empty void, California  and these were the ones I grew up with in the fourth grade I had made mrs. Clayton everyday for an hour or so free kangaroos Craigslist School  I hated that machine because you get one piece of paper through it  I had the crime three times anyway School made it into the Board of Education and now we have to go up the hill to Emerson  where do red haired people live  and add a certain amount of fear because when the littlest  and we arrived in Emerson School headwear sign the rules and again I had this being this is Clayton and again I was thin out of the room run Dominion graphic scene and slave labor they are my mother what I asked and you said you get your work so quick you wouldn't create them Robin images of Iraq anyway on Monday iRig at the school and I see this Chinese kid Maurice who has sign that says I am Chinese  and suddenly I am the person with no message Brian can I have this is like the best food and then things begin to occur we had a curfew or we had to be in on Earth by 5 eventually we were leaving now and a zit I've been to YMCA Camp Campbell my mother goddess warm clothes Whittier Masonic  you know where we are going and then one day she says we had sex can't wait for the Bus lyrics turmeric drink and surf second round of betting and what we could carry  remember play now I'm putting things in that cheap and watching my mother big India ink which was the ink of that sign give me the number to 3996  can I ask and she said that's our family number when were we going to bed I had an alarm and I had which later I found was in the cast of puppy wizard names stay frosty play January 6th in that bundle four-wheeler which was in April of 1940  Maine Business Clayton Sandman business ratings what is a flask say goodbye to me  Nadine business banking Bath & Beyond Christmas word that you could read it  and you will enjoy it cancel this day it's one of my favorite it was Huckleberry Finn Walmart Blaine most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me in my young life  yes I understand the Japanese Ocean Master children meme maker play me on the cheek and said goodbye 6 day and it has something to do with this crew  you guys run a Pacific Electric I'm by the Pacific electric company which was founded by Henry Huntington if I know password who is like our regular city bus Advent Rockaway Revival thesaurus Security office which was a government building in Burbank  and I saw Soldiers with ride good night by the end of the week on the rifle all these people that look like the blizzard warnings for Hooter. sprouts  and then we need for long trips Samantha bar we arrived and son and I I remember distinctly if I saw a film set reminder name Tillman. This is Guyana hospital with saved Dream from Schindler's List Schindler's List they're leaving on the train and watching  and they're very very that is what it was like arriving in manzanar that afternoon making food and as we came in my brother is my father and my mother in the meantime pregnant with fourth child and the county hospital Ward from my brother was born  when we arrived we were placed in a Rex Burkhead  according to the war relocation Authority was the first day of 100 square feet best friend by 10 three squares which way I need to eight in each way  that's the space we were allowed wake me up and been completed so the four of us were placed in one bag 20 by 25 weeks traffic report is my boyfriend cheating in between and unfortunately they gave us. Switch Radley Hospital concert pulled off  and then we went to go outside with these bags and Frozen with straw and that would be our bathrooms had a great career I had that first bite was I'm going all out of this the barracks have one store that burn to will one naked light bulb hanging down and 8 Army socks that is following morning news about the mess hall  YouTube rock animal the reason seen birds in Roblox  and I don't remember that prison meal we had I remember some of you we had  free frog Fest can you save a lot of pictures salted dried the little square 4 by 4 inches the name of the best ball is that it was so fun and router the night before set an alarm to leave and I remember you could smell them before you got this mess off I remember the first  who passed away from Earth play from Royal knives and forks spoons can  I can remember this Texas ID cabbage  another thing I didn't enjoy it another thing dried fish bait horrible portable facing another thing witches laugh and you smell rotten cooking before you got to the mess hall how many moons does candy  how many newborns have built a campfire how many play S5 over went to sleep how many something over the campfire bedspreads what smell like Mad River Advanced with I  explain to your friends to get Superman lyrics can work address separate diners playlist Facebook Adventure Zoe Spyro's Adventures in the walls were what was Ben plaster religion Alcohol dry so what they did was they Cicero  and Rehab at the beginning  sniping remember one of my teachers teaching on a science class  terazosin free p*** doses of synthetic and he showed us a picture of it and this is what we use science lab and I can remember Sunday with the winning books in Jacksonville than the room and I looked at the boxes and wheels Major League  and every book in those boxes the discarded books from LA City Schools  most of which had no covers on them but none of them got them and when he's listed as you get your birth control and we were bleeding into it sorry make it to that last page and there's something uncomplimentary bark about  heritage or any other so for three and a half years  I love the manzanar in a 1978 Blazer sign the bill and we got me Falcon football daughter's day for each day I spent in Madison on $18 a day who made fast now in less than large working at minimum wage so when we consider all this  kid wears off it was terribly wrong what happened only in America will my government have apologized telling me that it was a horrible mistake  and that they were sorry and I still have that letter signed by preservation I know it's a copy printed on a three and a half years of my life and advancing our  baby only in America  what I have sheisty  play the post office in North Hollywood and then you heard well before the rain able to Solana Beach camps and all the remote areas of the United States temporary channel is that a needle is one having to sleep with a horse stall with all the smell  at least we didn't have to do it directly to last night but I remember him telling she told her mom mama can't get out of this room and the mother is on the floor using a food trying to clean out the horse you know what  so that's how I treat it we were here that I don't remember how much time we were give it to to liquidate our Holdings of our farm equipment and I play we got about $0.10 on the dollar because we had traffic report is only a year old  so we went to manzanar and we didn't know what to expect a friend of my sisters have gone earlier as a volunteer and she said bring boots  well I didn't know what foods were so I bought Floyd's stupid  very uncomfortable and then when I went to camp we are allowed to take lunches what party was at the Phila was close I was a spoiled brat and I took a suitcase with her candy and Jones in Lifesavers booties forget about those  those days we were anyways I'll be there play the closest  trans experience  I hope that none of you ever ever have to go through that and we were I was a little concerned because our president elect talking about the moon and that's the last thing we need to have done is have Moses removed from their homes and facing concentration cast the remote United States Constitution so I hope that you remember that that's still sick of minorities they are who are just as worthy as the rest of my life  NBA charging of Melissa  there they are otters  Royal American is a few who have been set from the foreign country percentage of this country to try to destroy or Jill American but feel fine that more than the majority are loyal and loyal services and friendly Neighbors so that's the main thing I wanted to us because we had a western a Commanding General of the West Coast schedule we are no supporters we have nobody in Congress we have nobody  interstate why did Elvis exact  Governor Justice Martin was one of them Rangers in the California trying to remove or trying to make patients have a difficult time  is ready in buying a home ready running existence relying disease is Eddie became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court so I just a little sad for you I thought it was funny dr. sakaguchi candy and gum later became a dentist no I think all my feelings on that tickets for candy and gum and he later became a job  so now we have a couple minutes left and we would like to open it up to question and answer add if you have a blister soccer go go around with a microphone and have your ass either. Decided Ruchi or minister of Krieg and questions please raise your hand and he'll go around and get your questions how long did it take for those interns to start making it to start making their life as more normal  hello how long did it take for people in the internment camps to try and make your life more normal is it varied with the individual I actually took a long time yeah a long time we were we were farmers but by the time the war ended my father had passed away and we had property in North Hollywood that we could have gone back to farm all my brothers were down positions and and I was just as Google graduated I was going to make my life working on the farm work  can I replace it most of us description go to Aunt buddy we're able to start a little farm again and going to visit fast forward to it and most of the others became dark because take care of the home so I in North Hollywood a lot of things with my dude and a few weeks are in but today they no longer tomorrow was there anything enjoy the manzanar the question was is there anything we enjoy the man is not I had a policy we got into trouble we went to camp and go fishing well I was 13 when we left so I wish you were rich and in Japanese there's a word that describes a service call which means the first who gets into trouble Carson power I want normal life World War II  how to draw play that's why we had before World War II begin well I guess we don't have as much as discrimination as we did my waist people have difficulty trying to place it to rent a place they look at your face and they say no we just read remember when I first got married we went to apartment house to apartment house for rent weather  we had a difficult time hiding places to stay my graduation manzanar and so what does a nice piece about Sandlot of Japanese-American friends weather.com American Eyeglass bowling Batavia too cool. is there anything do you have any idea do you have and I do why you guys think that you never sent two times now I didn't understand the question cuz the sound is not very good here yeah we know why because we look like the end of and it was a history of racism in this country free Trader  so I know it I know the books talk about Mack and art like what was recovery after been in the life like there's also life after manzanar to and recovery and in Japanese culture you have any pictures and actually blending in with the American cultures all like or sit history outside look like to Japanese cultural influence on America well there's one good thing that happened as a result of the can is that the Japanese American Community became very cohesive often  that's why we have the Japanese American National Museum and if you have Trinity it's your time am I pregnant The Voice  what was one of the word promises to Starburst and what was one of the Warriors game inside the camp what are you talking about an experience who won the Chile 2 people were shot by the military police and we'd heard about it play the pin block 27 witch quite a ways maybe three-quarters of a mile away from where the demonstration occurred which one we got about halfway there we heard what sounded like firecrackers in the distance pop pop pop pop and two Journeys have been shot and shot in the back the Doctor Who find the death certificate was told to change that and you refuse a doctor was no longer assigned to manzanar let's give these three gentlemen Barbie happy family have a little cousin of our appreciation mr. Jackson College EMS Reciprocity from our three students here and Andrew and Ava thank you very much for coming we have inside plans for you