“A date which will live in infamy”, President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous words that rang straight to the United States core. The attack on Pearl Harbor haunts the American history books. On that December day in Hawaii, the Japanese air raided the Naval base known as Pearl Harbor. Word of the attack travel traveled as if it was a wildfire. Results of the catastrophic event struck the hearts of many families knowing that some of them would never see their loved one come home. The lives of 2,300 Americans lost on their own country’s ground. After word of the attack spread to nation’s capital there was an immediate declaration of war on Japan, so forth putting The United States of America into World War II. Additionally, with the country having many Japanese-Americans calling America their home. The fear of possibly having another attack on the United States soil there was an evacuation order set place in February 1942. The evacuation order told and placed any person of Japanese descent in internment camps for the risk of spies being on America’s soil. One author wrote a book about how a family proceeded through the process from the evacuation order to the release of them back to their home.
