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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – In Fresno connected Monday, radical gathered to grant each who person died serving our nation's military, including Japanese Americans.
It was a somber greeting successful Roeding Park erstwhile the Central California Japanese American Citizens League gathered to assistance retrieve those Japanese Americans who made the eventual sacrifice for our country.
Dale Ikeda, a erstwhile Fresno County judge, says galore served during a clip erstwhile their loyalty to our state was questioned aft the onslaught connected Pearl Harbor.
"The irony is that galore of them had families who were inactive successful attraction camps present successful America. At the aforesaid time, they were liberating those who were interned successful German attraction camps," Ikeda said.
Ikeda says they are honoring the lives of Japanese Americans who died warring for America and for state during World War II.
He says the lawsuit is to amended the assemblage astir what happened, arsenic good arsenic grant their sacrifice.
"At the commencement of World War II, aft the onslaught connected Pearl Harbor, determination was a unreality implicit Japanese Americans. Concerns astir their loyalty, whether they mightiness beryllium imaginable spies engaged successful espionage oregon sabotage. And nary of that was true," helium said.
Ikeda says the Japanese American work members, similar the ones whose names are etched into chromatic astatine the memorial successful Roeding Park, were warring prejudices and the war, each for our freedoms that should ne'er beryllium taken for granted today.
"Many of them volunteered to service from the attraction camps wherever they and their families were interned, during World War II and adjacent aft their exemplary work successful Europe and successful the Pacific, their families inactive languished successful American attraction camps," helium said.
At the time, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was utilized arsenic a justification for the internment of Japanese Americans.
