unprecedented war effort that saved the world from hitler and fascism and brought out the worst which took the form of something called executive order 9066 issued by fdr three months after pearl harbor. a preemptive measure against espionage. that s how it was billed. we know it by a different name, internme internment. 77,000 citizens, legal and illegal resident aliens, 120,000 people total, almost all of them japanese descent, were given a week to settle their affairs and then shipped off to camps in remote deserted areas and lived with barest necessities until the end of the war, in 1945, when they were sent home without jobs, without property and without ever being charged without anything. some were given limited compensation but most received nothing. that s a story you probably know about. but this month marks an important anniversary of the rest of that story. because it was in august of