Committee keeps memory alive of 1,800 Japanese WWII prisoners
Committee keeps memory alive of 1,800 Japanese WWII prisoners
PAPUA NEW GUINEA. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, DEIRDRE. AND DURING WORLD WAR TWO, MORE THAN 110,000 PEOPLE OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY WERE INCARCERATED IN THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING 1800 IN PLACER COUNTY ALONE, KEEPING THAT HISTORY ALIVE IS THE MISSION FOR THE STILL STANDING GUARD COMMITTEE. AND JOINING US THIS MORNING IS STU HIGUERA, WHO바카라 게임 웹사이트S PART OF THE COMMITTEE AND AGAIN, JOINING US LIVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME THIS MORNING. WELL, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. LET바카라 게임 웹사이트S START IN PLACER COUNTY, WHERE WAS THIS ENCAMPMENT AND WHO COMPRISED THE CAMP바카라 게임 웹사이트S POPULATION THERE WERE MAINLY THE NISEI, WHICH IS A SECOND GENERATION AMERICAN BORN CITIZENS. AND SOME OF THEIR PARENTS, PROBABLY TWO THIRDS OF THE PEOPLE WERE FROM WHERE AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THE CAMPS WERE NOT JUST IN CALIFORNIA. THEY WERE SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES TRYING TO TAKE PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE COAST. SO HOW DID THE INTERNMENT CAMPS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REALLY END UP SHAPING OUR REGION, ESPECIALLY ONCE THE WAR WAS OVER? WELL, THEY TOOK AWAY THE JAPANESE-AMERICANS, WEREN바카라 게임 웹사이트T VERY WEREN바카라 게임 웹사이트T ABLE TO OWN LAND AND SO THEY WERE THEY TOOK AWAY THE FARMERS. A LOT OF PEOPLE FELT LIKE THAT THE THE AGRICULTURAL PEOPLE WERE STRONG IN THE CALIFORNIA AND THEY WANTED TO GET RID OF THE JAPANESE-AMERICANS BECAUSE THEY WERE SUCH GOOD FARMERS. SO WHY DO YOU THINK THAT, ESPECIALLY FOR THIS COMMITTEE, WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO SHARE THESE STORIES? WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE WE BRING EDUCATION TO THE PEOPLE, TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS EVENT TEACHES PEOPLE ABOUT PROTECTING AND UPHOLDING THE RIGHTS OF ALL UNITED STATES CITIZENS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. NOW, STU, WE바카라 게임 웹사이트LL GET YOU OUT OF OUT OF HERE ON THIS. YOUR COMMITTEE IS HOSTING AN EVENT. WHAT CAN FOLKS LOOK FORWARD TO? WELL, TONIGHT, FROM 7 TO 9:00 AT THE DEL ORO HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, OUR PROGRAMS CAN INCLUDE A READING FROM STORIES FROM THE STANDING GUARD BOOK, A SHORT FILM FROM SIERRA COLLEGE PRESS, EXPLAINING WHAT THE STANDING GUARD BOOK WAS ALL ABOUT. AND IT WAS STORIES FROM NISEI OR THE SECOND GENERATION JAPANESE-AMERICANS. AND THEN THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트RE GOING, ARE CULMINATING EVENT WILL BE A PANEL DISCUSSION FROM PEOPLE WITH A VARIETY OF VIEWS ABOUT THE EVENTS AND INCARCERATION OF THE JAPANESE-AMERICANS DURING WO
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Committee keeps memory alive of 1,800 Japanese WWII prisoners
Stu Kageta with the Still Standing Guard Committee joined sister station KCRA this week to talk about how the group keeps history alive. The committee aims to shed light on the fact that more than 1,800 Japanese people in the county were held prisoner during World War II.To see the full interview, watch the video player above.
Stu Kageta with the Still Standing Guard Committee joined sister station KCRA this week to talk about how the group keeps history alive.
The committee aims to shed light on the fact that more than 1,800 Japanese people in the county were held prisoner during World War II.
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To see the full interview, watch the video player above.