![]() Although briefed on the lack of military necessity, President Franklin Roosevelt issued the mass eviction and incarceration order of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast in 1942. government following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Heart Mountain was one of ten War Relocation Authority (WRA) camps established by the U.S. ![]() ![]() government, which had imprisoned Hayami and Hoshizaki for looking like the enemy, was now asking the youths to join the very army that was guarding them at Heart Mountain."¨"¨ ![]() Army, with one exception-Hayami and Hoshizaki were called to fight for democracy overseas while they and their families languished in American-style concentration camps."¨Hayami and Hoshizaki, both Southern California natives, received their draft notices while incarcerated at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp, near Cody, Wyoming. Like other teenagers of their time, the two youths were drafted into the U.S. Stanley Hayami and Takashi Hoshizaki came of age during the early 1940s, in the midst of World War II. Both fought for their rightful place in the United States. After graduating from high school, one youth went into the U.S. ![]()
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