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On Feb 19, 1942 President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up & imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

https://ow.ly/nU4p50QFqHA
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Cathryn Poff
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The Hasuike family in Tigard, Oregon, had been hardworking famers & key community members since they founded Hasuike Farms in 1906 ...

Before being sent to the camps, they self-evacuated to Eastern Oregon where they farmed until they were allowed home.
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One of the sons, Yoshio, fell in love with a Japanese American girl, Sachiko, and they got married during their families' evacuation in Ontario, Oregon (eastern Oregon)

https://obits.oregonlive.c...
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Neighbors, including the Baggenstos family, tended the Hasuike's fields, and when the Hasuikes eventually were allowed to return, they were able to come back to all their farmland and keep it going.
08:26 PM - Feb 19, 2024
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3 decades later it was a rite of passage for area teenagers like me to pick strawberries for the Hasuikes every June to earn money

We had no idea about their family history.

I just learned all this from their oral histories

https://heritage.lib.pacif...
08:29 PM - Feb 19, 2024 (Edited)
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Cathryn Poff
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Here's the transcript of Yoshio and Sachiko Hasuike talking about their internment years

It's a pretty fascinating account of their experience, and well worth reading

GDrive link to PDF transcript:
https://drive.google.com/f...
10:29 PM - Feb 19, 2024
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