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Eric Muller remembers Executive Order 9066

book coverOn February 18, 2006, Eric Muller will be the guest speaker at the Northern California Time of Remembrance program in Sacramento, California. The program recalls Executive Order 9066, which gave the military the authority to remove from their homes more than 110,000 people—American citizens of Japanese ancestry and Japanese aliens—and place them in relocation camps during World War II. E.O. 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.

Muller is the author of Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II which tells the amazing story of some of those internees who would refuse to be drafted into that same military that evicted them from their homes. Read an excerpt from the book.

Eric Muller blogs at Is That Legal?

Bookmark and Share   Posted by DB on February 15, 2006 05:48 PM | | Archived in Author Events | History | Law

Comments

Dr. Muller,

I have only recently come across your work and the issues associated with Malkin's book, which feel confuses the nature of loyalty and zealous patriotism (at the cost of others). I am something of an itinerant and have been out of touch for a while. Having an interest in this period of history, I am disturbed by the attitudes of those who draw such parallels with the war on terrorism and Pearl Harbor. I just wanted to say that I find your work (and that of others such as Dr. Robinson)excellent and precise in addressing some of the fallacious arguments being pandered today. I am making an attempt to trace back some of your work in this area in order to learn more. Please keep up the dialogue.

Posted by: Hugh M. Nessum [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 19, 2007 09:37 AM

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