Letters from the Japanese incarceration camp at Santa Anita

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, there was an unfounded fear that Japanese Americans would be loyal to Japan. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the military to incarcerate Japanese Americans. The Santa Anita Race Track was designated one such camp, creating the Santa Anita Assembly Center.
Thousands of Japanese Americans were forced to live in barracks and horse stables. One man was Ted Fujioka. Ted was 17-years-old when he was forced into Santa Anita and wrote letters to a high school teacher. Decades later, those letters made it back to Ted’s nephew, Darrell Kunitomi, historian for the Los Angeles Times.
Here, Darrell reads a few of Ted’s letters and shares memories of his time at the camp and tells us why we cannot forget this time in American history.
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[@truthbtold3177]

Thank you for sharing

[@piggydc]

Thank you so much for sharing. It's very awesome for Ted Fujioka and those impacted by the internment to keep sharing these stories. May nothing like this ever happens again.

[@scooternak53]

Thank you for sharing.

[@LoveKeepsGiving]

"I could write about the food forever but time and stationary doesn't permit." 😄 So amazing! So sad and so powerful. We have failed as people. I can only have hope for our future.

[@lilysrc5530]

Thank you

[@lindenschmitt]

God Bless Japanese American And today's Families.. Will our leaders learn from History ? Let us Hope they do.

[@annalisakrueger7362]

Thank you for sharing. It is so important to keep this history alive.

[@randallfontana4592]

Wonderful, bittersweet story. Thank you.

[@shivydbonbon]

Thank you for this incredibly moving story. Heartbreaking. 😢

[@rjhobbs]

Thank you for sharing Darrell. Such an amazing story. Your uncle was a remarkable man.

[@tinocobp]

I pass this place everyday from work in Pasadena to home in Duarte. Never new.

[@kevinjenner9502]

An admirable stoicism in the face of injustice. Shikata Ga Nai.

[@Mikeesocal69]

good job. fighting for the bankers and oil companies.

[@salamilidaintgonfit7576]

YALL I THOUGHT THAT SAID INCINERATION CAMP I NEED TO SIT DOWN HOYL SHIT HDFJDHFJDDH

[@MissLexi333]

Great example as to how we should all trust the government

[@nicolehsu7298]

wow omg :(

[@fgo-muggle]

Thank you

[@lindenschmitt]

God Bless Japanese American And today's Families.. Will our leaders learn from History ? Let us Hope they do.