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Bob Uyeyama
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Interviews
Description: Executive order 9066, forced removal, and detention center in Fresno. CA.
Description: Loyalty oaths and "No, No's" can compare to loyalty oaths during the McCarthy trials. Dad was taken to Tule Lake Detention Center for not signing oath. Dad was separted from family until the end of the war.

Description: Released from camp and sent back to their homes with $25, everything was taken away, home and farm was gone, lived in Camp Kohler near McClellan Air Force base, lived at Japanese Methodist Church.

Description: School experience when they returned to Florin from camp and his former friends would not accept him.

Description: Starting all over from scratch. Family had nothing.

 

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