Hood River's economy began embracing tourism and outdoor activities with less emphasis on agriculture.
Interesting how the economy flipped on their mentality on how to make money
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Newspapers, organizations, and citizens from across the country, as well as military in service, responded quickly to Hood River's honor roll incident, most with contempt. News headlines included "Hood River's Blunder" (New York Times), "Not So American" (Chicago Sun), and "Dirty Work at Hood River" (Collier's).[11]
Interesting that most news sources quickly disregarded this issue. I wonder how they positioned their articles?
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National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II dedicated in Washington, DC.
Thoughtful gesture by the US.
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Public Law 109-441 authorizes what would become the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program administered by the National Park Service. Up to $38 million in grants to “identify, evaluate, interpret, protect, restore, repair, and acquire” former confinement sites was authorized. The first grants were awarded in 2009.
Good efforts to give back to the japaneese community
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Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, ending Chinese immigration for the next 60 years.
Pretty crazy that immigration from china was completely cut off. Why 60 years?
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University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi turns himself in to the authorities with a four-page statement explaining why he would not submit to the imprisonment on Constitutional grounds.
Interesting way to turn yourself in. Really sad in hindsight
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Sitting down, the father shook his head, saying: “I came to America to become a rich man so that I could go back to the village in Japan and be somebody. I was greedy and ambitious and proud. I was not a good man or an intelligent one, but a young fool. And you have paid for it.”
The US did a good job of marketing that the country was a land of opportunity. However, many Japaneese were blindsided when making the move.
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“Go back to Tokyo, boy.” Persecution in the drawl of the persecuted. The white teeth and brown-black leers picked up the cue and jigged to the rhythmical chanting of “Jap-boy, To-ki-yo; Jap-boy,
The discrimination that the japaneese-american's faced was just so unfair and they were treated accordingly in the camps. The american government also tricked the public into thinking that they were going to have a better place to live
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