Growing up in one of Arizona's Japanese American incarceration camps

Dick Matsuishi's childhood was disrupted when, at 4 years old, he was sent to the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona in 1943, following President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066. He spent three formative years there as a Japanese American citizen confined due to wartime fears and prejudice after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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