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Article: Camp survivors connect past, present.(Minorities)(Japanese internment: Mistakes of 60 years ago should not be repeated in the wake of Sept. 11, event participants warn.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2002
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Byline: REBECCA NOLAN The Register-Guard
Kenge Kobayashi was 14 years old when his family was given three weeks to leave their California vegetable farm and move to an internment camp in an Arizona desert.
Now 75 and living in Eugene, Kobayashi said as a naive teen, he enjoyed life in the Gila River camp in Arizona, where he lived with his parents, two brothers and sister from May 1942 until early in 1945.
"I was a kid then, and suddenly I had a lot of friends to play with," he said.
But his parents lost everything when President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of West Coast Japanese Americans ...