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Washington Senate adopts resolution remembering forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans
Summary
The Washington State Senate on Feb. 18 adopted Senate Resolution 8616, marking the 83rd anniversary of Executive Order 9066 and urging remembrance of Japanese American veterans, incarcerees and civil rights activists.
The Washington State Senate on Feb. 18 adopted Senate Resolution 8616, a measure recognizing and remembering Japanese Americans who suffered forced removal and incarceration during World War II.
Senator Bob Hasegawa, who moved adoption of the resolution, framed the measure on the Senate floor as a reminder of constitutional protections and the need to resist contemporary threats to civil liberties. "My family history, my parents, my grandparents, my aunts, uncles, everybody in the community was sent to American concentration camps during World War II," Hasegawa said on the Senate floor, adding that the resolution reiterates the phrase "let it not happen again."
The resolution text, read on the floor, cites Executive Order…
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