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Former SOU President Speaks Of Internment

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The Manzanar camp, in California.

December 7th, 1941 was forever branded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the "day which will live in infamy," for the Japanese attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  But his administration soon followed with another day seared into the memories of Japanese-American families: February 19, 1942. 

That was the day FDR signed the presidential order sending families of American citizens to "internment" camps, in the belief that they were bound to sympathize with Japan in World War II.  The date is now marked as the Day of Remembrance in ceremonies all around the country. 

Roy Saigo, former Southern Oregon University president, spent time in a camp as a toddler.  He addresses an SOU assembly to mark the day, and visits the studio in advance.  

 

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