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NARRATOR: The
Ishikawas are a fishing

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family living in California.

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These are their home
movies from before the war.

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They are Japanese
immigrants building a life

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on the American West Coast.

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But in 1942, that's just
where a suspicious government

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doesn't want them.

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Takeo and Roberta Shiroma are
children when the US government

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puts their families on a train.

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ROBERTA SHIROMA: We had
to get rid of everything.

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We were given one month.

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TAKEO SHIROMA: People who
lived closer to the ocean,

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they only had 24 hours.

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NARRATOR: They were headed
inland to one of the 10 hastily

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built internment camps
ordered by President Roosevelt

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at the start of the war.

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TAKEO SHIROMA: There would
be two families in one room.

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ROBERTA SHIROMA:
When we got there,

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my mother had to stuff
canvas bags with hay which

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were to be our mattresses.

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I can't remember the food.

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I can remember not
wanting to eat it.

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I would just look at it.

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NARRATOR: They study, work,
even joined the military.

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The government rounds
up more than 110,000

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Japanese-Americans, claiming
it's for their own safety.

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They'll be calling this
home, but they are not free.

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