Visitors come from all over the world to see the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial. They come for different reasons: Some to remember family, others to seek deeper meanings.
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On the island, it meant the mass forced removal on March 30, 1942, of 227 Japanese Americans. Days earlier, more than four dozen other Japanese Americans had been arrested by the FBI; or had moved to Moses Lake, which was not in an exclusion zone; or were serving in the military. Two-thirds of those removed were U.S. citizens.