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"After meeting with Democratic and Republican members of Congress two weeks ago, my colleagues and I in a coalition of Japanese American groups felt inspired and re-energized by the bipartisan support we received for the program that dedicates money to preserving the sites were 120,000 Japanese Americans were confined by the government during World War II...Now we’re going to need that bipartisan support again to overcome the funding cut in the budget plan released Monday. It calls for eliminating the funding for the JACS program for 2020.
America needs a forum to learn about this history. We will not stop seeking the restoration of this vital program, and we need your support."
"As I researched my upcoming book about the incarceration and its effects on my family and the Japanese American population as a whole, I found multiple examples of people who questioned their place in society, their value as human beings and the hypocrisy of a nation that often pays lip service to humanitarian concerns...We have the power now to prevent the need for another program devoted to preserving the record of how a misguided administration can mistreat a community. There are already signs of forces pushing back."
"We are greater as a nation when we all work together. The Army learned that during the war when Japanese American soldiers took on the hardest fighting. Certainly, the Lost Battalion in France knew that when Japanese American soldiers rescued them while surrounded by Germans in the Vosges Mountains. Our military represents our country better when it reflects the full diversity of the people who live here and want to serve. Using misguided security concerns to limit that diversity doesn’t make us stronger."
"Forty-five years after World War II, the U.S. government did the right thing and apologized for its wartime abuse of civil liberties. Every president isn’t perfect, but President Bush embodied true leadership by maintaining a sense of political decency and decorum."
"After the war, when the incarceration of Japanese Americans was deemed one of the worst human-rights violations in U.S. history, the government eliminated the question about nations of birth and vowed to keep the information confidential. Not anymore."
"As I look at where my family has gone since my grandparents moved here, I see a quintessentially American story that would have been lost if we had been denied citizenship."
"Racism, under whatever justification its supporters can find, is still racism. It goes against what makes us all Americans. There is no racial or religious test for being an American. We should not start one now."
- USA TODAY
"Setsuko Saito was my mother. My parents met at Heart Mountain. Without 9066, I would not be here. Still, it’s my hope that no future American families will be formed in this way, because our nation’s leaders did not resist the easy call of racism and overreaction."
- History News Network
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