And when we went to the internment camp, guard towers, double security fence and all that, I really wondered what’s going to happen to us. You know, that this is just the beginning and they may very well send us back to Japan. And that, to me, was horrible.
I, in my heart, knew my loyalty belongs to America. I went to school, pledged allegiance every morning in grammar school. And for me to think that I may be sent to Japan was horrendous. And so that was sort of a nightmare.
—Susumu Satow, THE WAR
On February 19, 1942, just two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive
Order 9066. Its tone was carefully neutral: it authorized the
War Department to designate “military areas” that excluded
people
I, in my heart, knew my loyalty belongs to America. I went to school, pledged allegiance every morning in grammar school. And for me to think that I may be sent to Japan was horrendous. And so that was sort of a nightmare.
—Susumu Satow, THE WAR
On February 19, 1942, just two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive
Order 9066. Its tone was carefully neutral: it authorized the
War Department to designate “military areas” that excluded
people