Conquering the Divide by Teresa Watanabe

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Conquering the Divide
Writer: Teresa Watanabe
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Questions

1. What was Executive Order 9066?
2. Where was the internment camp located that Tokuji Yoshihashi was held?
3. In what year did Tokuji Yoshihashi leave camp?
4. In what army unit did Tokuji Yoshihashi serve?
5. Was this unit segregated?
6. What was this unit known as?
7. Who said, “you fought not only the enemy, but you fought prejudice-and you won”?
8. What does this sentence mean to you, “That order to ban all the Muslims… I don’t think that’s right”?
9. What does this sentence mean to you, “They…undermine the very thing that sets our country apart: our enduring commitment to freedom and justice for all”?
10. Executive Order 9066 said, “all persons Japanese ancestry” to leave their neighborhoods along the West Coast and in Arizona.”  What does this mean to you?
11. Where was Sumiko Set Semi’s internment camp?
12. How did Don Seki lose his arm?
13. How many lives did the 442nd Regimental Combat team lose?
14. How many lives did the 442nd Regimental Combat team save?
15. Where was the unit that the 442nd Regimental Combat team from?
16. Why do you think Evan Seki Matsuyama wants to pursue a doctorate in U.S. History at Oxford University to answer this question, “Why did my grandfather lose his arm for a country that put my grandmother in a concentration camp?”
17. What is the national nonprofit that Mitchell T. Maki is president?