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Show UTAH "Ftb PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service (801) 328-8678 MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Acting U.S. Attorney General P31ans Topaz visit By Der;" Plrelps Bill Lann Lee, Acting Assistant U.S. . Attorney General forCivil Rights, will be in Delta next Thursday, Feb. 19 as part of his recognition of "The Day of Remembrance" which was set aside to think about ' the effects Executive Order 9066 had on Japanese-Americans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the order Feb. 19, 1942 which paved the way for the internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans living along or near the West Coast of the United States. Approximately 110,000 people of Japanese descent from California, Washington, Oregon and part of Arizona were placed into ten internment camps by the summer of 1942. One facility was the Topaz Internment Camp located about 15 miles west of Delta. Lee will arrive at 8 a.m. at Delta Municipal Airport. His itinerary is still tentative but he will visit Topaz. After his This internment barrack is part of ttie Topaz Museum located on the grounds of the Great Basin Museum of 4Delta visit, Lee will travel to Salt Lake Delta. Visitors are welcome to view this historic reminder of an American tragedy. City for a speech at Cottonwood High Japanese-Americans were interned zen or not; he is still a Japanese. The JapaJohn L. DeWitt, the director of the WestSchool. nese race is an enemy race and while "This is the first time thc day has been ' within a year after World War II started. ' ern Defense Command in San Francisco is National security concerns were given as ,l an example of the perceived prejudice. His many... have become Americanized, the . commemorated In Salt Lake City," said . the basis for the decision to issue the in- 1 statement is included in Leonard J. racial strains are undiluted." Topaz Museum President Janc Beckwith. . ternment order. In the years following the President Ronald Reagan signed a law Arrington's history of Topaz called IlH: Lee's interest in Topaz may come from war, there has been speculation that prejuin 1988 directing the federal government Price of PreJudice. his relationship with Stuart Ishimaru, a to issue an apology to the JapaneseIn a letter to President Roosevelt, Japanese-American who works in his of- . diee mar have actually played a large part , in the decision. American internees. Each survivor was DeWitt said, "A Jap is a Jap .. .it makes no fice. Ishimaru's parents wcrc interned at A 1942 statement made by Lt. Gen. paid $20,000 as redress. difference whether he is an American Citi..!opaz. |
