February 19th, 1942:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered the roundup of some 120,000 Americans of foreign ancestry. These people were stripped of their liberty and property and tossed into concentration camps run by the military. They lived in torrid conditions, were force-vaccinated, and lived behind barbed wire fences. Escapees were either captured or shot on-sight.
In Hawaii, between 1,200 and 1,800 people watched the war from inside military prisons.
Of those interned, 62 percent were U.S. citizens. The U.S. government also caged around 11,000 Americans of German ancestry and some 3,000 Italian-Americans.
Some say "it can't happen here." It already has.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered the roundup of some 120,000 Americans of foreign ancestry. These people were stripped of their liberty and property and tossed into concentration camps run by the military. They lived in torrid conditions, were force-vaccinated, and lived behind barbed wire fences. Escapees were either captured or shot on-sight.
In Hawaii, between 1,200 and 1,800 people watched the war from inside military prisons.
Of those interned, 62 percent were U.S. citizens. The U.S. government also caged around 11,000 Americans of German ancestry and some 3,000 Italian-Americans.
Some say "it can't happen here." It already has.