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"Our parents are known as the quiet Americans, they didn't complain about anything," said Ikeda. Norman Ikeda says his parents never showed frustration of being incarcerated. The inmates of Poston made the best out of the situation, even building their own school and irrigation system. "It was a small room 20 by 25-square-foot room and when we went in the first day we had nothing there but a cooler and a heater and one light bulb," said James Tajiri, incarcerated at age 15. "We had a pillowcase but we filled it with straw." James Tajiri, also from San Diego, spent his teenage years incarcerated sleeping in a barrack. "The government put us on a train and sent us to the Colorado Indian reservation and there we stayed for the next three years," said Ruth Okimoto, incarcerated at age six. At 6-years-old, Ruth Okimoto and her family left San Diego, taken away by soldiers armed with rifles and bayonets. With just days to pack their items, families boarded trains and buses for the unknown. About 18,000 were imprisoned at the Poston relocation center just 12 miles south of Parker, AZ.
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Nearly 120,000 Japanese people living in the U.S., 70,000 of them American citizens, were sent to ten internment camps.
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As America entered World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued executive order 9066 with the goal of stopping espionage and to protect those of Japanese descent from violence.