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Draft Resisters Tell Of Pain: WWII Disloyalty Charges Still Haunt Internees

By Art Campos Sacramento Bee Staff Writer 2/24/1993 Page B1 METRO FINAL Mits Koshiyama and Frank Emi waited nearly 50 years to tell their side of the story. As young men, the two Japanese Americans were sent to the Heart … Continue reading

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Interned and shunned during war: Japanese Americans recall their resistance

By Ted Bell Sacramento Bee Staff Writer 5/10/1992 B1 METRO They were cast out by the outcasts. They are the Japanese-American men who refused to fight in World War II after the U.S. government interned them and their families in … Continue reading

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Letter to Dad, Sacramento History Museum exhibit on the Japanese American experience, 1992

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50 years later, memories of internment remain painful

By Jeannie Wong Sacramento Bee Staff Writer 2/17/1992 A1 MAIN NEWS “PERSONAL JUSTICE DENIED’ – EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 Their diaries are brittle and stained now, their memories misty and fleeting. But for many Japanese-Americans, it is all they have left … Continue reading

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