Article: Hoping to not repeat history Japanese-Americans held at internment camps during WWII speak out.(Neighbor)

Byline: Jean Murphy Daily Herald Correspondent

Sam Ozaki, former principal of Chicago's Taft High School, and George Watanabe, a retired architect, were both high school students when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

They were among the thousands of Japanese-Americans living in California, Oregon and Washington who were rounded up the following February and forced to leave their homes for internment camps.

"When President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, dictating that all 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the three western states must report to internment camps, we lost our freedom, our liberty and all of ...

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