Utah Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Have A Permanent Day Of Remembrance

For the Japanese American experience of World War II

Replica of a camp barracks (Image is author’s)

Thousands were incarcerated in camps

After Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was bombed on December 7, 1941, by the Japanese Navy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. The order allowed military…