DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution:
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Description of Pictures: A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
October 1, 1987 – January 11, 2004
The Constitutional process is examined by considering the experiences of Americans of Japanese ancestry before, during, and after World War II. During World War II almost 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, were forced to leave their homes, sell much of their property at enormous losses, and move into U.S. government-built detention camps as a result of Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.
However, in spite of this community's loss of rights, many young Japanese Americans volunteered for duty in the U.S. armed forces, serving with great distinction in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. The most famous were members of the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group composed almost entirely of Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the detention camps. On view are more than 1,000 artifacts and photographs relating to the experiences of these Japanese Americans.
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SIAHMP_030305_09.JPG: A few pictures from the exhibit on Japanese-Americans interned during World War II. The video in the background is a guy explaining to his daughter what life was like in the camps at Manzanar. Manzanar was the first of the camps to be designated a National Historic Site and I've visited it a couple of times. The camp itself was torn down shortly after the war, the wood sold off. Clearly, this conversation, complete with Mount Whitney in that back, is fake since there were no camps remaining that people could tell their children about. However, once the National Historic Site is set up, it should be possible.
SIAHMP_030305_24.JPG: This part of the Japanese internment exhibit honors to Japanese who fought for the United States in Europe during World War II. Their flags are on the wall. Oddly enough, while they were imprisoned in the camps, they were still eligible for the draft and were encouraged to fight against fascism while their parents and family were still in the camps.
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2003 photos: Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year.
Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah.
Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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