2017 marks 75 years since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the executive order authorizing the creation of Japanese-American internment camps. After the order, roughly 120,000 Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes and forced to live with little but a bed, a few crates and whatever they could carry with them from their homes.
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