Wartime Mistakes, Wartime Mistakes, Peacetime ApologiesPeacetime Apologies

Pearl Harbor bombing of Pearl Harbor bombing of the USS West Virginiathe USS West Virginia

Pearl Harbor a small boat Pearl Harbor a small boat rescues seaman from the USS rescues seaman from the USS

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Naval dispatch announcing the Naval dispatch announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Japanese attack on Pearl

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President President Roosevelt Roosevelt signing the signing the declaration of declaration of war against war against Japan.Japan.

What Americans think about What Americans think about Japanese AmericansJapanese Americans

Arizona 1942. Construction of Arizona 1942. Construction of relocation camp.relocation camp.

Manzanar relocation Center, Manzanar relocation Center, CaliforniaCalifornia

Japanese American boarding up Japanese American boarding up storefront before the evacuation, storefront before the evacuation,

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Japanese-Americans boarding Japanese-Americans boarding train to a camptrain to a camp

Life goes on, dance party at Life goes on, dance party at the campthe camp

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In 1976, Executive Order 9066 was officially ended by President Gerald Ford.

President President Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter signed a bill signed a bill that to that to investigate the investigate the relocation of relocation of Japanese Japanese Americans.Americans.

President President Ronald Ronald Reagan Reagan approved approved the Civil the Civil Liberties Act.Liberties Act.

In 1990, In 1990, President President George Bush George Bush wrote an wrote an apology to the apology to the Japanese Japanese Americans Americans who had lived who had lived in the in the internment internment camps.camps.

Letter of ApologyLetter of Apology