Fortyone years ago today forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. Less than 3 months later President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive order that led to the relocation and detention of some 120.000 JapaneseAmerican citizens and noncitizens in relocation centers. In the four decades since that "day of infamy" we have destroyed our powerful adversary and built her up to be a powerful friendso powerful that we now plead with her to restrict the export of her products. In the four decades since the mutual hatreds of war. we have so healed ourselves that we now have a prosperous. thriving JapaneseAmerican community which. despite its small population of about 600.000. includes not one. not two. but three U.S.
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