A message on the 75th anniversary of #EO9066 by Kendall Kosai of @OCANational: https://t.co/sSQtS2WPWZ #DayofRemembrance pic.twitter.com/LdsTcwHaa8

— NCAPA (@NCAPAtweets) February 19, 2017

Some families were sansei - the 3rd generation in the US. Most families were headed by naturalized immigrants, with nisei (2nd gen) children. Americans. Yet this is the hate they faced after 7 December 1941. #DayOfRemembrance pic.twitter.com/hh7t2XixOW

— Dan Kim 김명준 (@danielmkim) February 19, 2019

In case anyone could ever claim that Americans could/would never make members of an ethnic group wear distinctive symbols, or tags as if they were no more valuable than luggage. #DayOfRemembrance pic.twitter.com/OzRUHg7NsI

— Dan Kim 김명준 (@danielmkim) February 19, 2019

The barracks at Manzanar were made of flimsy wood & weren’t insulated against the cold. Families had no privacy, as they only had a sheet to separate their area from another family’s. #DayOfRemembrance pic.twitter.com/WDXvvg146F

— Dan Kim 김명준 (@danielmkim) February 19, 2019

Upon your arrival, or soon thereafter, you would be asked to fill out this loyalty questionnaire. How would you respond if the government that demanded loyalty from you just stripped away your life & that of your family? #DayOfRemembrance https://t.co/Sf3gG4qdXN

— Dan Kim 김명준 (@danielmkim) February 19, 2019

12,000 men & women answered their Marion’s call to arms despite all of this. Most of the men were eventually assigned to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated unit in US Army history.

— Dan Kim 김명준 (@danielmkim) February 19, 2019

These people - these Americans - all had to rebuild their lives after the war. They continued to face the same discrimination that caused their incarceration in the first place. Nevertheless, they persisted. #DayOfRemembrance

— Dan Kim 김명준 (@danielmkim) February 19, 2019

If we’ve learned anything at all in the 77 years since FDR signed that order, it should be that the ostracism of a swath of Americans, simply based on racial antipathy, runs counter to the promise that is America. #DayOfRemembrance

— Dan Kim 김명준 (@danielmkim) February 19, 2019

Here endeth the lesson.

— Dan Kim 김명준 (@danielmkim) February 19, 2019