- Bainbridge
Island Japanese-American Exclusion Memorial
- ("Let
It Not Happen Again") dedicated
on
August 6
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Guests,
families and surviving internees gathered on
Bainbridge Island,
WA, to dedicate a memorial wall to
honor the first group to in
the country to be removed from their homes to concentration camps
after President Theodore Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in February,
1942.
That order ”…allowed Japanese-American citizens on the West Coast to be
removed from their homes and forcibly relocated. On March 30, the first group of
internees was assembled on Bainbridge Island and
taken
to the Eagledale ferry landing near what is now Pritchard Park.
- "The group numbered 272 men, women, and children, and all
were allowed to bring only one suitcase and what they could carry or wear.
The internees were eventually moved to the Mojave Desert in California from
Seattle, where they remained until after the end of World War II. About half
would return to Bainbridge Island to rebuild their lives.” The editors of the Bainbridge Review, Walt and Milly Woodward, famously (and, among West Coast
newspapers, uniquely) opposed the internment for the duration of the war.”
- (Quoted material
thanks to www.pritchardpark.org)
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