Pearl Harbor!

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Pearl Harbor!
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Dr.Suess
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Comic Books
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December, 1942
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Ernie Pyle
In Europe we felt our enemies . . . were still
people but in the Pacific (they were) subhuman
and rep- ulsive the way some people feel about
mice or cockroaches. Pyle was killed covering
the Pacific War
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Hollywood Film, 1942
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Japanese propaganda
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British imperialism India
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Guadacanal
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Marines on Guadacanal, 1942
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Aussie forced to fight by Uncle Sam
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Internment camps
General John DeWitt 1943 stated the Japs
must be wiped off the face of the earth. No such
fears of the Germans or Italians
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Los Angeles Times

• A viper is nonetheless a viper wherever
• the egg is hatched--so a Japanese-American, born
  of Japanese parents, grows up to be a Japanese
  not an
• American.

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Dr. Suess cartoon
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San Francisco, March 1942
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Japanese-Americans at War

• 100 Battalion and the 442 fought in Italy
• Most decorated in US history
• 21 Medals of Honor
• 52 Distinguished Service Crosses
• 9,486 Purple Hearts

Lyn Crost, Honor By Fire
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Senator Dan Inouye-Hawaii