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Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese American Exclusion Act and the date of the forceable relocation of Japanese American citizens into internment camps. In Cascadia, there were large populations of Japanese Americans who were established business people and land owners. Bainbridge Island was a notable site where many many citizens were removed to camps at a great distance from Cascadia, their property confiscated and never returned, and other shameful acts on the part of the US government.

Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

Not exactly a delight or splendor...But of serious note.
 
cascadiabound said:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Posted_Japanese_American_Exclusion_Order.jpg

Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese American Exclusion Act and the date of the forceable relocation of Japanese American citizens into internment camps. In Cascadia, there were large populations of Japanese Americans who were established business people and land owners. Bainbridge Island was a notable site where many many citizens were removed to camps at a great distance from Cascadia, their property confiscated and never returned, and other shameful acts on the part of the US government.

Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

Not exactly a delight or splendor...But of serious note.
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I appreciate you posting about this. I was raised in New England and this was never taught in public school--I only learned about it when I moved out here.

George Takei spent his youth in one of those camps and has also done a lot to raise awareness of them.
 
Mister_Song said:
I appreciate you posting about this. I was raised in New England and this was never taught in public school--I only learned about it when I moved out here.

George Takei spent his youth in one of those camps and has also done a lot to raise awareness of them.
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You are welcome...A few more facts for those unfamiliar...

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens.

The United States Census Bureau assisted the internment efforts by providing confidential neighborhood information on Japanese Americans. The Bureau denied its role for decades, but it became public in 2007. In 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the removal by ruling against Fred Korematsu's appeal for violating an exclusion order.[20] The Court limited its decision to the validity of the exclusion orders, avoiding the issue of the incarceration of U.S. citizens without due process.

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter opened an investigation to determine whether the decision to put Japanese Americans into internment camps had been justified by the government. He appointed the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) to investigate the camps. The Commission's report, titled Personal Justice Denied, found little evidence of Japanese disloyalty at the time and concluded that the incarceration had been the product of racism.


I have visited a number of the internment camp sites. Several have been designated National Historic Sites. It is a chilling experience. I'll see if I can find a pic or two to post later.

cb
 
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UPDATE: Bertha broke through to daylight at 11:30 a.m. yesterday, Seattle time. Here is video of the breakout from DOT taken by a drone. It was hard to notice the big moment of breakthrough on a machine for which progress is measured in inches, but in the current view its cutting face is visible.

check out the link below to watch it break through...:cool:

https://youtu.be/pEJ1Xr501hU


cascadiabound said:
Brand new super cool video of the Alaska Way Viaduct/SR99 tunnel (in Seattle) project taken with a drone. (This is a huge underground highway tunneling project akin to the Boston big-dig) The tunneling machine has been affectionately named "Bertha"

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Vi...feature-drone-footage-inside-the-sr-99-tunnel

Check it out!

http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2013/12/17/121f41aa-dfe7-41db-bd82-708e8ba511bd/thumbnail/620x350/5dc1ec916b585b993f79c55b57c9211c/ctm_1217_BERTHA.jpg
"Bertha"

http://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2013641806-300x0.jpg
Cross section prospectus/artist rendering

(okay I am a total nerd... Have you figured this out yet? Flowers, science, weird parades, nature, ferries, art, literature...)
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