Executive Order 9066 - Concentration Camps in the United States of America (DRAKE HALL)

The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, initiated a series of actions and events that resulted in the disruption of 125,284+ persons of Japanese descent, where two-thirds were natural-born American citizens. See and witness the true story of how the Hirai family of Washington State and others lived under the conditions set forth by the United States military, federal, state, and local governments, news media, and the general population along the Pacific Ocean coast and other parts of the United States and its territories during World War II. 

Stuart Hirai is a Sansei (3rd generation Japanese American) who grew up in the rural area of eastern Oregon, near Nyssa, where the Hirai family was one of 350 families in the first War Relocation Authority (WRA) labor camp featured in Uprooted: “The Camp Without a Fence.” Within the extended Hirai Family, relatives were incarcerated at Amache (Granada, Colorado), Gila River (Arizona), Heart Mountain (Wyoming), Manzanar (California), Minidoka (Idaho), and Tule Lake (California) concentration camps including Department of Justice internment camps at Fort Lincoln (near Bismarck, North Dakota) and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Stu serves on the Board of Governors of the “Go For Broke National Education Center” and has made numerous presentations about the Nisei Soldiers who served in the Pacific and Europe during World War II at military history seminars and at embassies. Stu is married, lives with his wife, Jolynn, and three very spoiled dogs in South Fort Collins. 

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• Concentration Camps: North America (Japanese in the United States and Canada During World War II), Roger Daniels 
• A Tragedy of Democracy (Japanese Confinement in North America), Greg Robinson 
• Judgement Without Trial (Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II), Tetsuden Kashima 

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