On 19 February 1942, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers" hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
George Takei's childhood as one of the more than 120,000 mass incarcerated was memorialised in the graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy".
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Episode 76 recounts the night Japanese Midget Subs came right into Sydney Harbour!
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/76-japanese-subs-in-sydney-harbour/ 🎧
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On March 8th, women's rights are at the center of the attention. Rightfully so.
But for me, personally, it's also the anniversary of my grandmother's death.
I haven't talked about her much yet since I switched my social media life to Mastodon, so allow me in this thread to remember her, and to tell you why she was an important, if not the most important, female figure in my life.