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DESCRIPTION:The  2015 San Jose Day of Remembrance that will take place on F
 ebruary 15\,  2015\, commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066\, wh
 ich occurred  on February 19\, 1942. This executive order led to the incar
 ceration of  more than 100\,000 Japanese Americans during WWII.\n\nThe the
 me for the 35th San Jose Day of Remembrance event is &quot\;Stories from t
 he Past\, Lessons for Today.&quot\;  During the program\, personal stories
  about the Japanese American  incarceration will be told by descendants of
  those whose lives were  deeply affected by Executive Order 9066\n\nKent C
 arson\, a volunteer docent with the Japanese American Museum of  San Jose 
 (JAMsj)\, will be one of our&nbsp\; speakers. He will recount the  story o
 f his grandfather\, Terry Terakawa\, who is also an active  volunteer and 
 a former board member of JAMsj.\n\nRecently\, Carson transcribed his  gran
 dfather&rsquo\;s story about what happened to his family after the Japanes
 e  attack on Pearl Harbor.&nbsp\; After the attack\, prominent members of 
 the  Japanese American community were immediately rounded up without due  
 process and taken away.&nbsp\;&nbsp\; This is Terakawa&rsquo\;s story as t
 old to Carson:\n\n<p style="padding-left: 30px\;"><em>After Pearl Harbor\,
  some FBI agents  knocked on my door. We answered it\, and they started go
 ing through our  house\, looking for something. They didn&rsquo\;t tell us
  why they were there or  what they were looking for. I asked them what the
 y were looking for\,  but they just ignored me because I was just a young 
 kid. Of course\, they  were probably looking for weapons or some kind of e
 vidence that showed  any kind of collaboration with the Japanese.</em>\n\n
 <p style="padding-left: 30px\;">&nbsp\;\n\n<p style="padding-left: 30px\;"
 ><em>They asked us where Dad was. He was a  very high-ranking member of th
 e Buddhist Church in Walnut Grove\,  California\, and Salt Lake City\, Uta
 h\, and they were obviously very  suspicious of him and his connections to
  the Japanese American  community.</em>\n\n<p style="padding-left: 30px\;"
 ><em>He was in the hospital at that time.  He had some kind of illness and
  had to be put into a big iron lung. I  found out that they went to his ho
 spital room\, opened the iron lung  machine\, and tried to take him outsid
 e. The hospital administrators and  doctors were so angry at these agents 
 that they called up the agents&rsquo\;  superiors and reported what was ha
 ppening. They were ordered to put Dad  back into his hospital room. They s
 aid that they would wait until he was  healthy enough to come back home\, 
 and then they would come see him.</em>\n\n<p style="padding-left: 30px\;">
 &nbsp\;\n\n<p style="padding-left: 30px\;"><em>Once he was out of the hosp
 ital\, they  came over to our house and arrested my father\, and then took
  him away to  the police station in our town\, without even asking him any
  questions.  They allowed my family to come down to see him one last time 
 before they  took him away to jail. At the station\, officers walked him o
 utside  towards the transport bus. As they were walking away\, my Mom hand
 ed me a  picture of our family and told me to give it to my father to keep
  while  he was in jail. I ran up to my father\, but before I could give hi
 m the  picture\,&nbsp\; I remember getting hit in the head by one of the o
 fficers and  falling to the ground. Sadly\, I wasn&rsquo\;t able to give h
 im our family  picture.</em>\n\n<p style="padding-left: 30px\;"><em>That w
 as the last time I saw him for a  long time\, probably up to nine months o
 r almost a year. I didn&rsquo\;t know  where they took him\, and I&rsquo\;
 m not sure they even told my Mom or anyone  else in my family. We were liv
 ing in Salt Lake City at the time\, which  even then had a very strong Mor
 mon community. Fortunately for us\, we  were surrounded by many supportive
  people within that community who  reached out&nbsp\; and helped us. When 
 my father was finally released and came  back home to us\, many people and
  community leaders in the area  continued to support our family\, especial
 ly my father. They said that if  we needed anything or had any problems\,<
 /em> they would help us out.\n\nCarson reflected on his conversation with 
 his grandfather. &ldquo\;Hearing  my grandfather&rsquo\;s stories has help
 ed inspire me. It&rsquo\;s an important part  of history. It was a time wh
 en a community was torn apart. We can take  lessons from that now and appl
 y them to building and nourishing our own  communities today. &rdquo\;\n\n
 The San Jose Day of Remembrance will take place on Sunday\, February  15\,
  2015\, from 5:30 p.m. -7:30 p.m.\, at the San Jose Buddhist Church  Betsu
 in\,&nbsp\; located at 640 North Fifth Street in San Jose. Each year\,  at
 tendees gather to remember the great civil liberties tragedy from over  se
 venty years ago and each one of us reflects on what that event means  to u
 s today.\n\nFor more information\, visit <a href="http://www.sjnoc.org">ww
 w.sjnoc.org</a> .\n
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SUMMARY:35th Annual San Jose Day of Remembrance:  Stories from the Past\, L
 essons for Today    
URL:/en/events/2015/02/15/35th-annual-san-jose-day-of-remembrance-stories/
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