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The draft dodgers of 1944
Behind the barbed wire of the Japanese internment camp at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming, a few men received their orders to report for duty. It was 1944, and they had been drafted. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States feared follow-on attacks would be conducted by persons of Japanese [...]
Posted by Rob Crotty on September 16, 2010, under - Civil Rights, - World War II.
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